The Vtiger CRM is an open source Customer Relationship Management software developed by Vtiger. With more than 4.5 million downloads on SourceForge it enjoys great popularity. Some weeks ago, I had the chance to play with RIPS and test its features - and was invited as guest author to write this post. As I did some manual research of the Vtiger CRM before and already found several vulnerabilities, I decided to use it for my first experiments with RIPS.

Does Wordpress really need an introduction? It is by far the most popular blogging software on the planet and it is also abused for other tasks frequently. A large percentage of the World Wide Web is Wordpress¹.

Plugins from the community are an integral part of most Wordpress sites, therefore this blog post will cover the complete Wordpress ecosystem and not just the core. To do this we downloaded all 47,959 plugins that are available from the official Wordpress repository and analyzed them with our static code analyzer RIPS! Shockingly, about every second larger plugin contains at least one medium severity issue. But is it really that bad? Read on to find out!

In our 12th advent calendar gift, we would like to cover an exciting SQL injection in phpBB2. Although phpBB2 was replaced by its successor phpBB3, it is still one of the most popular bulletin boards. RIPS detected a less severe but very beautiful SQL injection vulnerability that bases on a PHP quirk we will examine in detail in this post.

The next gift in our advent calendar reveals security issues in Teampass, a collaborative password manager first published in late 2011. We detected a critical unauthenticated SQL injection and many file inclusions which could have led to many leaked passwords and angry users. The issues were reported and fixed earlier this year.

After an automated security analysis of an application with RIPS, the application can be rescanned again. Within another round of security analysis, implemented patches can be verified or the analysis settings of the previous scan can be refined. In todays calendar post, we are introducing some of the rescanning and reviewing features of RIPS based on an example and see how rescanning works and what benefits it brings.