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Re: [EquipoFraude] Full Path Disclosure in most wordpress' plugins [?]


From: "Zerial." <fernando () zerial org>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:23:26 -0300

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I've received an answer from security at wordpress:

"We consider path disclosures a server configuration error.  WordPress
files don't protect against disclosing paths when directly loaded."

cheers


Zerial. wrote:
Victor Antonio Torre Villahoz wrote:
This not only happens in the plugins, all files in wp-admin/import/ have
errors like it.

I'm fix it using:

if ( defined('WP_ADMIN') or defined('WP_USE_THEMES') ){
;//coninue
}
else{
die();
}


I've received an email which contains a lot of files which are
vulnerables to FPD:

wp-admin/includes/admin.php
wp-admin/includes/class-ftp-pure.php
wp-admin/includes/class-ftp-sockets.php
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpsockets.php
wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ssh2.php
wp-admin/includes/comment.php
wp-admin/includes/continents-cities.php
wp-admin/includes/file.php
wp-admin/includes/media.php
wp-admin/includes/misc.php
wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php
wp-admin/includes/plugin.php
wp-admin/includes/schema.php
wp-admin/includes/template.php
wp-admin/includes/theme-install.php
wp-admin/includes/update.php
wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php
wp-admin/includes/user.php

Solution:

if ( defined('WP_ADMIN') or defined('WP_USE_THEMES') ){
;//coninue
}
else{
die("Oops! Don't run this script directly, n00b");
}
//---- or
if ( defined('ABSPATH')){
die("Oops! Don't run this script directly, n00b");


Fernando A. Lagos B. escribió:
Exists an call to add_action() without validate with function_exists().
When I run the php script directly, I get the full path of wp installation.
Example:
[+] http://www.marco2010.cl/wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php
[+] http://www.marco2010.cl/wp-content/plugins/hello.php

Is a bug? Is a feature?
More details posted in my blog:
http://blog.zerial.org/seguridad/vulnerabilidad-en-la-mayoria-de-los-plugins-para-wordpress/
(spanish)

cheers.
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