Critical Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability in Pragyan CMS
Information
Advisory by Netsparker (now Invicti)
Name: Critical Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in Pragyan CMS
Software: Pragyan CMS v3.0 and possibly below.
Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/delta/pragyan
Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection
Severity: Critical
Researcher: Omar Kurt
Advisory Reference: NS-14-001
Description
A simple and fast multiuser content management system to organize collaborative web-content. This CMS allows very fine user&group permissions, generating pages like articles, forms, quizzes, forums, etc, search powered by sphider.
Details
Pragyan CMS is affected by Blind SQL Injection vulnerabilities in version 3.0.
Example PoC urls are as follows:
- Blind SQL Injection
http://example.com/?page='+(SELECT 1 FROM (SELECT SLEEP(25))A)+'
You can read the full article about Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection vulnerabilities from here:
Solution
Vulnerability patched by Pragyan CMS developers. This vulnerability firstly reported by https://github.com/nean months ago.
Advisory Timeline
13/12/2013 – First Contact – Request Security contact
24/12/2013 – Second Contact – Sent Details
27/12/2013 – Vulnerability Fixed
29/01/2014 – Advisory Released
Credits
It has been discovered on testing of Invicti Web Application Security Scanner.
About Invicti
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