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Re: Wordpress enable-latex plugin Remote File Include Vulnerabilities



On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:30:58PM +0000, Amir@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> a bug in Wordpress enable-latex plugin that allows to us to occur a Remote 
> File Include on a Remote machin.
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> # Wordpress enable-latex plugin Remote File Include Vulnerabilities           
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> # Download......: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enable-latex/           
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> # Exploit.......: 
> http://www.site.com/[path]/wp-content/plugins/enable-latex/core.php?url=[Rfi]?
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I have now tested this with following versions:

WordPress: 3.2.1
Enable Latex: 1.1.2

I was unable to reproduce this issue. All I received back from application: 
"Sorry, you are not allowed to access this file directly.", which comes from 
core.class.php:

   7 /* Prevent direct access to this file */
   8 if (!defined('ABSPATH')) {
   9     exit("Sorry, you are not allowed to access this file directly.");
  10 }

This was added between revisions:
"""
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r467422 | sedLex | 2011-11-25 16:13:39 +0200 (Fri, 25 Nov 2011) | 1 line

bug
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r458335 | sedLex | 2011-11-01 19:00:07 +0200 (Tue, 01 Nov 2011) | 1 line

New version
"""

With version r458335 I am unable to reproduce this issue as these PHP-files 
just give require_once PHP warnings. Could you please help me with this issue 
to identify if this is valid announcement and with what versions, thank you.

- Henri Salo