Pentesting

Kali vs WP v1.0

Project 7 - WordPress Pentesting

Time spent: 5 hours spent in total

Objective: Find, analyze, recreate, and document five vulnerabilities affecting an old version of WordPress

Pentesting Report

1. CVE-2016-6634

• Summary: Input Validation Error
  • Vulnerability types: Unspecified Reflected Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
  • Tested in version: 4.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.5
• GIF Walkthrough:

- [ ] Steps to recreate: To exploit this issue an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to open a malicious URI: http://wpdistillery.vm/?s=%3Cscript%3Ealert%28%27XSS%21%27%29%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E The reflected query is not sanitized or rejected

2. CVE 2016-1564

• Summary: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in wp-includes/class-wp-theme.php in WordPress before 4.4.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a (1) stylesheet name or (2) template name to wp-admin/customize.php.
  • Vulnerability types: A3: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Tested in version: 4.2
  • Fixed in version: 4.4.1
• GIF Walkthrough:

- [ ] Steps to recreate: Get a wp admin to click a malicious link, which appears to change theme: http://wpdistillery.vm/wp-admin/customize.php?theme=

3. CVE-2017-5611 - [ ] Summary: SQL injection vulnerability
   • Vulnerability types: Input Validation Error
   • Tested in version: 4.2
   • Fixed in version: 4.7.2 - [ ] GIF Walkthrough: Week 7.3 CVE 2017-5611 SQLi.gif - [ ] Steps to recreate: Entering the following string: "or"1"="1 into the search box produces the sample page, not the expected 'Nothing Found' message.

Assets

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Resources

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GIFs created with LiceCap (http://www.cockos.com/licecap/).

Notes

Testing was accomplished with Wordpress running version 4.2 on virtualbox. Kali Linux was used for wpscan.

License

Copyright [2018] [Adam Hoek]

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