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MediaWiki Thumb.php Remote Command Execution

Disclosed
01/28/2014
Created
05/30/2018

Description

MediaWiki 1.22.x before 1.22.2, 1.21.x before 1.21.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.11, when DjVu or PDF file upload support is enabled, allows remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters. If no target file is specified this module will attempt to log in with the provided credentials to upload a file (.DjVu) to use for exploitation.

Author(s)

  • Netanel Rubin
  • Brandon Perry
  • Ben Harris
  • Ben Campbell <eat_meatballs@hotmail.co.uk>

Development

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_thumb
msf exploit(mediawiki_thumb) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(mediawiki_thumb) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mediawiki_thumb) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(mediawiki_thumb) > exploit

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