The 多说社会化评论框 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.2. The vulnerability exists due to a missing capability and nonce check on a directly web-accessible API endpoint, combined with a trivially forgeable HMAC-SHA1 signature keyed on an always-empty WordPress option, which allows the endpoints update_option handler to pass attacker-controlled option and value parameters directly to WordPresss update_option function without any allowlist or sanitization. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary WordPress options — such as setting default_role to administrator and enabling open registration — and subsequently register an account with full administrator privileges.
Weakness
The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/233.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/58.html
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duoshuo/tags/1.2/LocalServer.php#L49
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duoshuo/tags/1.2/LocalServer.php#L54
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/duoshuo/tags/1.2/api.php#L40
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/732c7ccd-de50-4e27-8cb9-3bb0ed30f0b4?source=cve