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arbitrary file upload :: is this a vulnerability in WordPress


dil_bert

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hello dear community, 


topic today: arbitrary file upload :: is this a vulnerability in WordPress


just recognized some folders in a freshly wordpress-installation 

see the following: 

 


wp-contents/uploads/

/2016/
/2017/
/2018/
/2019/


NOTE. THE SITE WAS INSTALLED freshliy IN summer 2019 
i have had no installation before.. 
so what happend here ...!?`

btw found some interesting reading on the net


well that looks interesting Arbitrary file upload vulnerability in WordPress User Submitted Posts .... curl http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/script.php.gif ...</blockquote>https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2018/01/29/arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability-in-wordpress-forms/

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The function that handles that, process_submition(), will save submitted files to the directory for the current year/month in the directory /wp-content/uploads/ with the following code:

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$upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();
move_uploaded_file( $_FILES[$key]['tmp_name'], $upload_dir['path'] . '/' . $_FILES[$key]['name'] );
The code does try to restrict .php files from being uploaded with the following code:

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if ( $_FILES[$key]['type'] == 'application/octet-stream' or $_FILES[$key]['type'] == 'application/x-httpd-php' )
    wp_die( "Error: For security reasons you can't upload application files!" );
That code isn’t effective because the “type” value it checks is user specified, so a .php file could be uploaded with the type specified as something else and it will pass that check.

While this type of vulnerability is fairly likely to be exploited if hackers are aware of it, in the case of the website we were cleaning, the plugin was deactivated, so the vulnerability could not have been exploited.

 

question - is this anything serious that i have found!? 

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