articleFR CMS 3.0.5 - SQL injection vulnerability

#Vulnerability title: articleFR CMS 3.0.5 - SQL injection vulnerability
#Product: articleFR
#Vendor: http://freereprintables.com
#Affected version: version 3.0.5
#Download link: https://github.com/articlefr/articleFR
#Fixed version: N/A
#CVE ID: CVE-2015-1364
#Author: Tran Dinh Tien ([email protected]) & ITAS Team (www.itas.vn)

::PROOF OF CONCEPT::

• REQUEST:
  POST /articlefr/register/ HTTP/1.1
  Host: target.org
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101
  Firefox/34.0
  Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8
  Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
  Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
  Referer: http://target.org/articlefr/register/
  Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.884814947.1419214773;
  __unam=bd22dea-14a6fcadd31-42cba495-31; GEAR=local-5422433b500446ead50002d4;
  PHPSESSID=8a9r8t1d5g9veogj6er9fvev63; _gat=1
  Connection: keep-alive
  Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
  Content-Length: 103

username=[SQL INJECTION
HERE]&email=test2%40itas.vn&name=test&password=123123&submit=register

• Vulnerable file: articleFR/system/profile.functions.php

• Vulnerable parameter: username

• Query: SELECT id, username, name, password, email, website, blog, date,
  isactive, activekey, membership FROM users WHERE username ='[Injection
  HERE]'

• Vulnerable function:
  function getProfile($_username, $_connection) {
  $_q = "SELECT id, username, name, password, email, website, blog,
  date, isactive, activekey, membership FROM users WHERE username = '" .
  $_username . "'";
  $_result = single_resulti($_q, $_connection);

    $_retval['id'] = $_result['id'];
    $_retval['name'] = $_result['name'];
    $_retval['username'] = $_result['username'];
    $_retval['password'] = $_result['password'];
    $_retval['email'] = $_result['email'];
    $_retval['website'] = $_result['website'];
    $_retval['blog'] = $_result['blog'];
    $_retval['date'] = $_result['date'];
    $_retval['isactive'] = $_result['isactive'];
    $_retval['activekey'] = $_result['activekey'];
    $_retval['membership'] = $_result['membership'];
  
    return $_retval;
  

}

::DISCLOSURE::

• 12/09/2014: Contact to vendor - vendor did not reply
• 12/11/2014: Contact to vendor - vendor did not reply
• 12/22/2014: Contact to vendor - vendor replied
• 12/23/2014: Send the detail vulnerability to vendor - vendor did not reply
• 01/21/2015: Public information

::REFERENCE::

http://www.itas.vn/news/itas-team-found-out-a-sql-injection-vulnerability-in
-articlefr-cms-72.html

• https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-1364

::DISCLAIMER::
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Sincerely,

Tien Tran Dinh ([email protected])