CVE-2018-5971

published 2018-02-17

CVE-2018-5971: SQL Injection exists in the MediaLibrary Free 4.0.12 component for Joomla! via the id parameter or the mid array parameter.

Priority P2 61 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

SQL Injection exists in the MediaLibrary Free 4.0.12 component for Joomla! via the id parameter or the mid array parameter.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ordasoft	medialibrary	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url http://localhost/[PATH]/index.php?option=com_medialibrary&task=view_author&id=[SQL]↗

url http://localhost/[PATH]/index.php/component/medialibrary/0/lend_request?Itemid=0&mid[0]=[SQL]↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests targeting the Joomla component 'com_medialibrary' with the 'task=view_author' parameter and a suspicious/encoded 'id' value indicative of SQL injection payloads. ↗
• → Monitor HTTP requests targeting the Joomla component path '/component/medialibrary/0/lend_request' with a suspicious/encoded 'mid[0]' array parameter indicative of SQL injection payloads. ↗
• → SQL injection in CVE-2018-5971 is exploitable via the 'id' parameter or the 'mid' array parameter in the MediaLibrary Free 4.0.12 component for Joomla!. ↗

• · The exploit POC URLs use base64-encoded SQL injection payloads in the 'id' and 'mid[0]' parameters. Detection rules should account for both raw and encoded payload variants. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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