full-disclosure - Re: IL and XSS vulnerabilities in multiple themes for WordPress

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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:43:33 +0100
From: David Sopas <davidsopas@...il.com>
To: MustLive <mustlive@...security.com.ua>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: IL and XSS vulnerabilities in multiple themes
 for WordPress

Just checked on two of those themes you wrote (Typebased and NewsPress) and
they don't have any test.php file.
Did you check them all?



On 4 June 2011 17:17, MustLive <mustlive@...security.com.ua> wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> I want to warn you about Information Leakage and Cross-Site Scripting
> vulnerabilities in multiple themes for WordPress.
>
> -------------------------
> Affected products:
> -------------------------
>
> Vulnerable are the next themes by WooThemes: Live Wire (all three themes
> from Live Wire series), Gotham News, Typebased, Blogtheme, VibrantCMS,
> Fresh
> News, The Gazette Edition, NewsPress, The Station, The Original Premium
> News, Flash News, Busy Bee, Geometric. Other vulnerable themes for WP are
> possible.
>
> ----------
> Details:
> ----------
>
> In different themes there is test.php - script with phpinfo() - which leads
> to Information Leakage (disclosure of FPD and other important information
> about the server) and XSS (in PHP < 4.4.1, 4.4.3-4.4.6).
>
> Information Leakage (WASC-13):
>
> http://site/wp-content/themes/_theme's_name_/includes/test.php
>
> XSS (WASC-08):
>
>
> http://site/wp-content/themes/_theme's_name_/includes/test.php?a[]=%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E
>
> For Live Wire the script is placed at address
> http://site/wp-content/themes/livewire/includes/test.php, similarly for
> other themes.
>
> ------------
> Timeline:
> ------------
>
> 2011.04.11 - announced at my site.
> 2011.04.12 - informed developers.
> 2011.06.04 - disclosed at my site.
>
> These vulnerabilities are still not fixed by developers. So users of these
> themes are need to fix the vulnerabilities manually (e.g. by deleting of
> this script).
>
> I mentioned about these vulnerabilities at my site
> (http://websecurity.com.ua/5071/).
>
> Best wishes & regards,
> MustLive
> Administrator of Websecurity web site
> http://websecurity.com.ua
>
>
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