bugtraq - Re: Wordpress gallery-3.8.3 plugin Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:06:14 +0200
From: Henri Salo <henri@...v.fi>
To: Beni_vanda@...oo.com
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Wordpress gallery-3.8.3 plugin Arbitrary File Read
 Vulnerability

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 01:01:18PM +0000, Beni_vanda@...oo.com wrote:
> a bug in Wordpress gallery-3.8.3 plugin  that allows to us to occur a
> Arbitrary File Read on a Local machin
> 
> 
> 
> ################################################################################&#8203;##############
> #
> # Exploit Title : Wordpress gallery-3.8.3 plugin Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability
> #
> # Author        : IrIsT.Ir
> #
> # Discovered By : Beni_Vanda    
> #
> # Home          : http://IrIsT.Ir/forum/
> #
> # Software Link : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gallery-plugin/
> #
> # Security Risk : High
> #
> # Version       : All Version
> #
> # Tested on     : GNU/Linux Ubuntu - Windows Server - win7
> #
> # Dork          : inurl:plugins/nextgen-gallery
> #
> ################################################################################&#8203;##############
> #
> #  Expl0iTs :
> #
> #  [Target]/wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/gallery-plugin.php?filename_1=[AFR]
> #
> #
> ################################################################################&#8203;##############
> #
> # Greats : Amir - B3HZ4D - C0dex - TaK.FaNaR - Dead.Zone - nimaarek - m3hdi - F@rid - dr.tofan
> #
> # and All Members In Www.IrIsT.Ir/forum
> #
> ################################################################################&#8203;##############

Seems to be false positive. At least I can't make that PoC URL work. This goes to Apache's error.log after trying to reproduce with the newest version of this plugin:

mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function register_activation_hook() in <snip>/wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/gallery-plugin.php on line 1334

Does the plugin need some kind of configuration before this vulnerability "activates"? Does "arbitrary file read vulnerability" mean it is not the same as remote file inclusion?

- Henri Salo