full-disclosure - Re: [EquipoFraude] Full Path Disclosure in most wordpress' plugins [?]

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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:23:26 -0300
From: "Zerial." <fernando@...ial.org>
To: Victor Antonio Torre Villahoz <vtorre@...pasec.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [EquipoFraude] Full Path Disclosure in most
 wordpress' plugins	[?]

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I've received an answer from security at wordpress:

"We consider path disclosures a server configuration error.  WordPress
files don't protect against disclosing paths when directly loaded."

cheers


Zerial. wrote:
> Victor Antonio Torre Villahoz wrote:
>> This not only happens in the plugins, all files in wp-admin/import/ have
>> errors like it.
> 
>> I'm fix it using:
> 
>> if ( defined('WP_ADMIN') or defined('WP_USE_THEMES') ){
>> ;//coninue
>> }
>> else{
>> die();
>> }
> 
> 
> I've received an email which contains a lot of files which are
> vulnerables to FPD:
> 
> wp-admin/includes/admin.php
> wp-admin/includes/class-ftp-pure.php
> wp-admin/includes/class-ftp-sockets.php
> wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php
> wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php
> wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpsockets.php
> wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php
> wp-admin/includes/comment.php
> wp-admin/includes/continents-cities.php
> wp-admin/includes/file.php
> wp-admin/includes/media.php
> wp-admin/includes/misc.php
> wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php
> wp-admin/includes/plugin.php
> wp-admin/includes/schema.php
> wp-admin/includes/template.php
> wp-admin/includes/theme-install.php
> wp-admin/includes/update.php
> wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
> wp-admin/includes/user.php
> 
> Solution:
> 
> if ( defined('WP_ADMIN') or defined('WP_USE_THEMES') ){
> ;//coninue
> }
> else{
> die("Oops! Don't run this script directly, n00b");
> }
> //---- or
> if ( defined('ABSPATH')){
> die("Oops! Don't run this script directly, n00b");
> 
> 
>> Fernando A. Lagos B. escribió:
>>> Exists an call to add_action() without validate with function_exists().
>>> When I run the php script directly, I get the full path of wp installation.
>>> Example:
>>> [+] http://www.marco2010.cl/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php
>>> [+] http://www.marco2010.cl/wp-content/plugins/hello.php
> 
>>> Is a bug? Is a feature?
>>> More details posted in my blog:
>>> http://blog.zerial.org/seguridad/vulnerabilidad-en-la-mayoria-de-los-plugins-para-wordpress/
>>> (spanish)
> 
>>> cheers.
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> 
> 
> 

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