In this blog post we will show how to exploit a SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2019-12872) found by RIPS Code Analysis in the popular java-based content management system dotCMS and how we escalated it to execute code remotely.

TikiWiki is an open source software that offers a wiki-style based content management system. It has more than 1.25 million downloads and a large code base of around 1.7 million lines of code. In this blog post, we demonstrate step by step how we used our leading RIPS Code Analysis solution to detect and verify a SQL injection vulnerability in minutes (CVE-2018-20719).

Joomla! is one of the biggest players in the market of content management systems and the second most used CMS on the web. RIPS discovered a second-order SQL injection (CVE-2018-6376) that could be used by attackers to leverage lower permissions and to escalate them into full admin permissions on Joomla! prior version 3.8.4.

CubeCart is an open source e-commerce solution. In one of our latest security analysis we found two flaws in this web application that allow an attacker to circumvent the authentication mechanism required to login as an administrator (CVE-2018-20716). Once bypassed, an attacker can execute arbitrary code on the web server and steal all sensitive files and data.

WordPress plugins are widely adopted and an attractive target for attackers. In this technical blog post we analyze the most critical vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins of 2017 and share insights about how static code analysis can detect these.