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MediaWiki SyntaxHighlight extension option injection vulnerability

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Disclosed
04/06/2017
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits an option injection vulnerability in the SyntaxHighlight
extension of MediaWiki. It tries to create & execute a PHP file in the document root.
The USERNAME & PASSWORD options are only needed if the Wiki is configured as private.

This vulnerability affects any MediaWiki installation with SyntaxHighlight version 2.0
installed & enabled. This extension ships with the AIO package of MediaWiki version
1.27.x & 1.28.x. A fix for this issue is included in MediaWiki version 1.28.2 and
version 1.27.3.

Author

Yorick Koster

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:

    msf > use exploit/multi/http/mediawiki_syntaxhighlight
    msf /(t) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf /(t) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf /(t) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf /(t) > run
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