CVE-2017-6104

Wordpress Plugin Mobile App Native 3.0 <= 3.0 - Arbitrary File Upload

2017-02-28 00:00
Larry W. Cashdollar

Strategic Overview

Status
Unpatched
Affected Version
3.0
CVSS
9.8Critical
Weakness type
CWE-434 · Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE
CVE-2017-6104
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At a glance

CVE-2017-6104 is a critical-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in the Wordpress Plugin Mobile App Native 3.0 WordPress plugin, affecting versions 3.0. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed February 2017, reported by Larry W. Cashdollar.

Vulnerability Overview

Remote file upload vulnerability in Wordpress Plugin Mobile App Native 3.0 in /zen-mobile-app-native/server/images.php file.

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-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Reaching this weakness in Wordpress Plugin Mobile App Native 3.0 3.0 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. An unrestricted file upload lets a caller store a file whose type or destination the application does not properly constrain.

If an uploaded file lands anywhere the server will execute, the flaw becomes remote code execution and the site should be treated as fully compromised. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for Wordpress Plugin Mobile App Native 3.0 yet, so installs running 3.0 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.

Remediation

No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Wordpress Plugin Mobile App Native 3.0: 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. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.

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External References

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