Woopra Analytics Plugin < 1.4.3.2 - Remote Code Execution

2013-10-07 00:00
wantexz

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.4.3.2
Affected Version
< 1.4.3.2
CVSS
9.8Critical
Weakness type
CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE
CVE pending
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At a glance

This record tracks a critical-severity Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in the Woopra Analytics Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.4.3.2. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.4.3.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2013, reported by wantexz.

Vulnerability Overview

The Woopra Analytics Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in versions before 1.4.3.2 via the 'file' parameter in the ofc_upload_image.php file. This allows attackers to execute code on the server.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Woopra Analytics Plugin < 1.4.3.2 carries this weakness at file, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Code injection means input from a request reaches a language construct that evaluates code, so the attacker's text is executed rather than treated as data.

The injected code runs with the web server's privileges, giving the attacker the same access to the database and filesystem as WordPress itself. For Woopra Analytics Plugin the fix is 1.4.3.2: builds < 1.4.3.2 are affected, anything from 1.4.3.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.4.3.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Woopra Analytics Plugin: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Woopra Analytics Plugin 1.4.3.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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