Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers WordPress Blog2Social SQL Injection Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in Adenion Blog2Social plugin for WordPress.

Blog2Social is a Social Media Auto-Posting and Scheduling Plugin for WordPress Sites and Blogs. Blog2Social automatically creates social media posts for your content and auto-posts at the best times for each network. Save time and pain of manually sharing and promoting your site on social media.

A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Adenion Blog2Social plugin through 5.5.0 for WordPress. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the affected system.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

WordPress.Adenion.Blog2Social.SQL.Injection
User should apply the patch provided by Adenion

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Adenion on 09 July, 2019

Adenion confirmed the vulnerability on 12 July, 2019

Adenion fixed the vulnerability in the upcoming version of Blog2Social on 12 July, 2019

Adenion released Blog2Social 5.6.0 which fixed the vulnerability on 22 July, 2019

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Tin Duong of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

IPS Subscription

Fortinet customers who subscribe to Fortinet's intrusion prevention (IPS) service should be protected against this vulnerability with the appropriate configuration parameters in place. Fortinet's IPS service is one component of FortiGuard Subscription Services, which also offer comprehensive solutions such as antivirus, Web content filtering and antispam capabilities. These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products. Fortinet strictly follows responsible disclosure guidelines to ensure optimum protection during a threat's lifecycle.