Overview
This blog post explores a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-39510, which affects the Pinterest Automatic Pin feature of ValvePress. This vulnerability has a high severity score of 8.5, indicating its potential impact on the security of a system. The improper neutralization of special elements in SQL commands, commonly known as SQL Injection, is at the heart of this vulnerability. Users and administrators should be aware of this vulnerability due to its potential for system compromise or data leakage.
Vulnerability Summary
CVE ID: CVE-2025-39510
Severity: High (8.5 CVSS Score)
Attack Vector: Network
Privileges Required: None
User Interaction: None
Impact: Potential system compromise and data leakage
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Product | Affected Versions
ValvePress Pinterest Automatic Pin | All versions up to latest
How the Exploit Works
The SQL Injection vulnerability in the Pinterest Automatic Pin feature of ValvePress arises from the application’s failure to correctly neutralize special elements in SQL commands. This oversight allows attackers to manipulate SQL queries by injecting malicious SQL code through user inputs, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data manipulation, and data leakage.
Conceptual Example Code
Here is a
conceptual
example of how this vulnerability might be exploited:
GET /search?query=' OR '1'='1 HTTP/1.1
Host: target.example.comIn this example, the malicious payload `query=’ OR ‘1’=’1` is injected into the application’s SQL query. If the application’s query is something like `SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ‘[query]’`, this would effectively become `SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ” OR ‘1’=’1’`. As ‘1’=’1′ is always true, this would return all the users, potentially leading to unauthorized access to sensitive user information.
Impact of the Vulnerability
Given the nature of SQL Injection, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to retrieve sensitive data from the database, modify data, execute administration operations on the database, recover the content of a specific file present on the DBMS file system, and in some cases, issue commands to the operating system.
Mitigation and Recommendations
The best mitigation strategy for this vulnerability is to apply the vendor patch when available. In the meantime, using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can serve as temporary mitigation. Additionally, it is crucial to sanitize and validate all user inputs and use parameterized queries or prepared statements to prevent SQL Injection attacks.