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Re: WordPress <= 2.8.3 Remote admin reset password

From: g30rg3_x <g30rg3x () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:13:24 -0500
Bug is confirmed...

WP team already issued and a patch
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/11798

Nice find.

Regards

2009/8/11 laurent gaffie <laurent.gaffie () gmail com>:

Mr Fabio,

You dont even understand the bug, so please shut the hell up.






2009/8/11 Fabio N Sarmento [ Gmail ] <fabior2 () gmail com>


if this is an bug, please close Twitter.com, MSN.com and other services,
because they have the same stupid "Reset password" service.

So please make my day, and create a stupid script to flood with mutiple
request to reset password.

LOL

2009/8/10 Jeremy Brown <0xjbrown41 () gmail com>


I'm guessing your not a Wordpress administrator, Fabio. Nice find
Laurent, as usual.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:48 PM, laurent
gaffie<laurent.gaffie () gmail com> wrote:

Oh ok.
Then, let's avoid that function.
If it's useless to have a function who validate a reset passwd before
resetting it, let's just avoid it smartass.


2009/8/10 Fabio N Sarmento [ Gmail ] <fabior2 () gmail com>


There is no risk on this.
It's just a little flaw, it doesn't broke anything or put your admin
access in risk.

:-P to me , this vulnerability is more "BUZZ" then real deal. LOL

2009/8/10 laurent gaffie <laurent.gaffie () gmail com>


Hi there,

This wasn't tested on the 2.7* branch.
It as been tested on the  2.8.* branch, with php 5.3.0 & php 5.2.9 as
an
Apache 2.2.12 module, on a linux env.


Regards Laurent Gaffié



2009/8/10 Nicolas Valcárcel Scerpella
<nicolas.valcarcel () canonical com>


I don't see the issue with wp 2.7.1

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, laurent gaffie wrote:


Errata:

"V. BUSINESS IMPACT
-------------------------
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise the
admin
account
of any wordpress/wordpress-mu <= 2.8.3"

-->

"V. BUSINESS IMPACT
-------------------------
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to reset the admin
account of
any wordpress/wordpress-mu <= 2.8.3"


Regards Laurent Gaffié


2009/8/10 laurent gaffie <laurent.gaffie () gmail com>


=============================================
- Release date: August 10th, 2009
- Discovered by: Laurent Gaffié
- Severity: Medium
=============================================

I. VULNERABILITY
-------------------------
WordPress <= 2.8.3 Remote admin reset password

II. BACKGROUND
-------------------------
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus
on
aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work
with
your
blogging software, not fight it.

III. DESCRIPTION
-------------------------
The way Wordpress handle a password reset looks like this:
You submit your email adress or username via this form
/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword ;
Wordpress send you a reset confirmation like that via email:

"
Someone has asked to reset the password for the following site
and
username.
http://DOMAIN_NAME.TLD/wordpress
Username: admin
To reset your password visit the following address, otherwise
just
ignore
this email and nothing will happen




http://DOMAIN_NAME.TLD/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=rp&key=o7naCKN3OoeU2KJMMsag
"

You click on the link, and then Wordpress reset your admin
password,
and
sends you over another email with your new credentials.

Let's see how it works:


wp-login.php:
...[snip]....
line 186:
function reset_password($key) {
    global $wpdb;

    $key = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]/i', '', $key);

    if ( empty( $key ) )
        return new WP_Error('invalid_key', __('Invalid key'));

    $user = $wpdb->get_row($wpdb->prepare("SELECT * FROM
$wpdb->users WHERE
user_activation_key = %s", $key));
    if ( empty( $user ) )
        return new WP_Error('invalid_key', __('Invalid key'));
...[snip]....
line 276:
$action = isset($_REQUEST['action']) ? $_REQUEST['action'] :
'login';
$errors = new WP_Error();

if ( isset($_GET['key']) )
    $action = 'resetpass';

// validate action so as to default to the login screen
if ( !in_array($action, array('logout', 'lostpassword',
'retrievepassword',
'resetpass', 'rp', 'register', 'login')) && false ===
has_filter('login_form_' . $action) )
    $action = 'login';
...[snip]....

line 370:

break;

case 'resetpass' :
case 'rp' :
    $errors = reset_password($_GET['key']);

    if ( ! is_wp_error($errors) ) {
        wp_redirect('wp-login.php?checkemail=newpass');
        exit();
    }



wp_redirect('wp-login.php?action=lostpassword&error=invalidkey');
    exit();

break;
...[snip ]...

You can abuse the password reset function, and bypass the first
step
and
then reset the admin password by submiting an array to the $key
variable.


IV. PROOF OF CONCEPT
-------------------------
A web browser is sufficiant to reproduce this Proof of concept:


http://DOMAIN_NAME.TLD/wp-login.php?action=rp&key[]=<http://DOMAIN_NAME.TLD/wp-login.php?action=rp&key%5B%5D=>
The password will be reset without any confirmation.

V. BUSINESS IMPACT
-------------------------
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise the
admin
account of any wordpress/wordpress-mu <= 2.8.3

VI. SYSTEMS AFFECTED
-------------------------
All

VII. SOLUTION
-------------------------
No patch aviable for the moment.

VIII. REFERENCES
-------------------------
http://www.wordpress.org

IX. CREDITS
-------------------------
This vulnerability has been discovered by Laurent Gaffié
Laurent.gaffie{remove-this}(at)gmail.com
I'd like to shoot some greetz to securityreason.com for them
great
research on PHP, as for this under-estimated vulnerability
discovered by
Maksymilian Arciemowicz :
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/38

X. REVISION HISTORY
-------------------------
August 10th, 2009: Initial release

XI. LEGAL NOTICES
-------------------------
The information contained within this advisory is supplied
"as-is"
with no warranties or guarantees of fitness of use or otherwise.
I accept no responsibility for any damage caused by the use or
misuse of this information.




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