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FlashChat Arbitrary File Upload

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Disclosed
Oct 4, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a file upload vulnerability found in FlashChat
versions 6.0.2 and 6.0.4 to 6.0.8. Attackers can abuse the upload
feature in order to upload malicious PHP files without authentication
which results in arbitrary remote code execution as the web server user.

Authors

x-hayben21
bcoles [email protected]

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

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/unix/webapp/flashchat_upload_exec
    msf exploit(flashchat_upload_exec) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(flashchat_upload_exec) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(flashchat_upload_exec) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(flashchat_upload_exec) > exploit
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