WordPress REST API User Enumeration Detection
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""The REST API exposed user data for all users who had authored a post of a public post type."""
from kittysploit import *
from lib.protocols.http.http_client import Http_client
class Module(Scanner, Http_client):
__info__ = {
'name': 'WordPress REST API User Enumeration Detection',
'description': 'The REST API exposed user data for all users who had authored a post of a public post type. WordPress 4.7.1 limits this to only post types which have specified that they should be shown within the REST API.',
'author': ['KittySploit Team'],
'severity': 'low',
'tags': ['web', 'scanner', 'vulnerability', 'cve2017', 'cve', 'wordpress', 'wp', 'edb', 'vuln'],
'agent': {
'risk': 'active',
'effects': ['network_probe'],
'expected_requests': 2,
'reversible': True,
'approval_required': False,
'produces': ['tech_hints', 'risk_signals', 'endpoints'],
'cost': 1.0,
'noise': 0.3,
'value': 1.0,
'requires': {
'min_endpoints': 0,
'min_params': 0,
'tech_hints_any': [],
'tech_hints_all': [],
'specializations_any': [],
'risk_signals_any': [],
'auth_session': False,
'capabilities_any': [],
'capabilities_all': [],
'confidence_min': {},
'confidence_min_any': {},
'endpoint_pattern_any': [],
'param_any': [],
'api_surface_ready': False,
},
'chain': {
'produces_capabilities': [
{
'capability': 'admin_surface',
'from_detail': '',
},
],
'consumes_capabilities': [],
'option_bindings': {},
'suggested_followups': ['auxiliary/scanner/http/login_page_detector'],
},
},
'references': [
'https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-rest-api-user-enumeration/',
'https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-user-enumeration/',
'https://www.afteractive.com/wordpress-user-enumeration-vulnerability/',
],
}
def run(self):
for path in ('/wp-json/wp/v2/users/', '/?rest_route=/wp/v2/users/'):
r = self.http_request(method="GET", path=path, allow_redirects=False)
if not r or r.status_code != 200:
continue
body = r.text or ""
headers = "\n".join(f"{k}: {v}" for k, v in r.headers.items())
body_all = ('"id":', '"name":', '"slug":',)
header_any = ('application/json',)
if (all(m in body for m in body_all)) and (any(m in headers for m in header_any)):
self.set_info(
severity='low',
reason="WordPress REST API User Enumeration detected",
path=path,
)
return True
return False
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