full-disclosure - Re: [FD] Arbitrary code execution by admins in File Gallery 1.7.7 (WordPress plugin)

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Message-ID: <5360F426.5020308@dxw.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:01:26 +0100
From: Harry Metcalfe <harry@....com>
To: Benji <me@...ji.com>
Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org, Dave Warren <davew@...eahit.com>
Subject: Re: [FD] Arbitrary code execution by admins in File Gallery 1.7.7
 (WordPress plugin)

> no, it doesnt matter. the vulnerability is yours and there is 
> absolutely no requirement for you to have reported in x amount of 
> time. you do not need to justify any amount of time.
Yeah, I know. I generally do intend to get things out promptly though, 
and this was a whoops.

H


On 30/04/2014 13:54, Benji wrote:
> Stop
>
>     Why the delay in discovery til reporting?
>
> My fault - a colleague wrote the report, and I didn't notice it at the 
> time.
>
> no, it doesnt matter. the vulnerability is yours and there is 
> absolutely no requirement for you to have reported in x amount of 
> time. you do not need to justify any amount of time.
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Harry Metcalfe <harry@....com 
> <mailto:harry@....com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Illwill,
>
>
>         What circumstance would a WordPress admin not usually have
>         this kind of access anyhow?
>
>     As Dave said, there are various levels of administrator in
>     WordPress. But our perspective on these issues is just that a
>     WordPress administrator is not necessarily also a server
>     administrator. Plenty of our clients have staff who are
>     administrators but who certainly do not have anything equivalent
>     to root server access or permissions. There are also plenty of
>     multisite installations of WordPress where the administrators of
>     individual blogs have no permissions on other blogs, or on the
>     main site.
>
>
>         Why the delay in discovery til reporting?
>
>     My fault - a colleague wrote the report, and I didn't notice it at
>     the time.
>
>     Harry
>
>
>
>         On 2014-04-29 05:13, Illwill wrote:
>
>             What circumstance would a WordPress admin not usually have
>             this kind of access anyhow?
>
>
>         Although it's rarely used, WordPress does have the capability
>         to support multiple levels of administrators, in which case
>         one may have access to an already installed plugin, but not to
>         install their own.
>
>         The same may be true if this plugin were installed in
>         multiuser mode, although I haven't kept up on what is
>         permitted in multiuser mode, or whether this plugin works in
>         multiuser mode or not.
>
>
>     -- 
>     Harry Metcalfe
>     07790 559 876
>     @harrym
>
>
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