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MediaWiki Thumb.php Remote Command Execution

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

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.

Authors

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

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_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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