Re: Wordpress gallery-3.8.3 plugin Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

[Henri Salo <henri@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 01:01:18PM +0000, Beni_vanda@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> a bug in Wordpress gallery-3.8.3 plugin  that allows to us to occur a
> Arbitrary File Read on a Local machin
> 
> 
> 
> ################################################################################​##############
> #
> # Exploit Title : Wordpress gallery-3.8.3 plugin Arbitrary File Read 
> Vulnerability
> #
> # Author        : IrIsT.Ir
> #
> # Discovered By : Beni_Vanda    
> #
> # Home          : http://IrIsT.Ir/forum/
> #
> # Software Link : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gallery-plugin/
> #
> # Security Risk : High
> #
> # Version       : All Version
> #
> # Tested on     : GNU/Linux Ubuntu - Windows Server - win7
> #
> # Dork          : inurl:plugins/nextgen-gallery
> #
> ################################################################################​##############
> #
> #  Expl0iTs :
> #
> #  
> [Target]/wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/gallery-plugin.php?filename_1=[AFR]
> #
> #
> ################################################################################​##############
> #
> # Greats : Amir - B3HZ4D - C0dex - TaK.FaNaR - Dead.Zone - nimaarek - m3hdi - 
> F@rid - dr.tofan
> #
> # and All Members In Www.IrIsT.Ir/forum
> #
> ################################################################################​##############

Seems to be false positive. At least I can't make that PoC URL work. This goes 
to Apache's error.log after trying to reproduce with the newest version of this 
plugin:

mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function 
register_activation_hook() in 
<snip>/wp-content/plugins/gallery-plugin/gallery-plugin.php on line 1334

Does the plugin need some kind of configuration before this vulnerability 
"activates"? Does "arbitrary file read vulnerability" mean it is not the same 
as remote file inclusion?

- Henri Salo