PT-2015-5251 · WordPress · Pixabay Images Plugin

Henri Salo · Published 2015-01-28 · Updated 2018-10-09 · CVE-2015-1376

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pixabay Images plugin versions prior to 2.4

Description The issue concerns the Pixabay Images plugin for WordPress, where the pixabay-images.php file does not validate hostnames. This allows remote authenticated users to write to arbitrary files by using an upload URL with a host other than pixabay.com.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.4, update the Pixabay Images plugin to version 2.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-1376

Affected Products

Pixabay Images Plugin

References · 10

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/wp_pixabay_images_upload.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/35846 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35846 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/75 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130017/WordPress-Pixarbay-Images-2.3-XSS-Bypass-Upload-Traversal.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/25/5 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1376 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=1067992%40pixabay-images%2Ftrunk%2Fpixabay-images.php&old=926633%40pixabay-images%2Ftrunk%2Fpixabay-images.php · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1376 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/534505/100/0/threaded · Note