bugtraq - Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Add From Server WordPress Plugin

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 17:53:11 +0200
From: Summer of Pwnage <lists@...urify.nl>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Add From Server WordPress
 Plugin

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability in Add From Server WordPress
Plugin
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Edwin Molenaar, July 2016

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract
------------------------------------------------------------------------
It was discovered that Add From Server is vulnerabile to Cross-Site
Request Forgery. It can be exploited by luring the target user into
clicking a specially crafted link or visiting a malicious website (or
advertisement). An attacker can use this issue to add illegal content to
the victims server, or add very large files to the victim's server to
exaust the amount of avalible disk space.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
OVE ID
------------------------------------------------------------------------
OVE-20160718-0004

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tested versions
------------------------------------------------------------------------
These issues were successfully tested on Add From Server WordPress
Plugin version 6.2.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fix
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This issue is resolved in Add From Server version 3.3.2.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Details
------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_request_forgery_vulnerability_in_add_from_server_wordpress_plugin.html

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summer of Pwnage (https://sumofpwn.nl) is a Dutch community project. Its
goal is to contribute to the security of popular, widely used OSS
projects in a fun and educational way.