full-disclosure - [FD] Full Path Disclosure vulnerability in JM Twitter Cards reveals the location of the WordPress installation on the server (WordPress plugin)

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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:09:45 +0000
From: dxw Security <security@....com>
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: [FD] Full Path Disclosure vulnerability in JM Twitter Cards reveals
	the location of the WordPress installation on the server
	(WordPress plugin)

Details
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Software: JM Twitter Cards
Version: 6.0
Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jm-twitter-cards
Advisory report: https://security.dxw.com/advisories/full-path-disclosure-vulnerability-in-jm-twitter-cards-reveals-the-location-of-the-wordpress-installation-on-the-server/
CVE: Awaiting assignment
CVSS: 5 (Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Description
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Full Path Disclosure vulnerability in JM Twitter Cards reveals the location of the WordPress installation on the server

Vulnerability
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This plugin contains a Full Path Disclosure vulnerability (CWE-200). This allows an attacker to discover the full path to the WordPress installation on the server, which they could use to assist in other attacks.
For this to happen, the site would have to have the ‘display_errors’ option set to true.

Proof of concept
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Turn on display_errors
Request http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/jm-twitter-cards/views/settings.php from a browser.
The following error message will be displayed:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function esc_html_e() in /path/to/installation/wp-content/plugins/jm-twitter-cards/views/settings.php on line 3

Mitigations
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Upgrade to version 6.2 or later.
If this is not possible, ensure that display_errors is turned off on a site running this plugin.

Disclosure policy
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dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/

Please contact us on security@....com to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, plugins@...dpress.org) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf.

This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days.

Timeline
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2015-07-29: Discovered
2015-07-30: Reported to vendor via contact form on http://www.tweetpress.fr/contact
2015-09-17: Vendor reported fixed
2015-10-12: Published

Discovered by dxw:
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Duncan Stuart
Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.

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