WordPress GiveWP POP to RCE (CVE-2024-5932)
A few days ago, Wordfence published a blog post about a PHP Object Injection vulnerability affecting the popular WordPress Plugin GiveWP in all versions <= 3.14.1. Since the blog post contains only information about (a part) of the POP chain used, I decided to take a look and build a fully functional Remote Code Execution exploit. This post describes how I approached the process, identifying the missing parts and building the entire POP chain.
Patch Diffing CVE-2023-28121 to Compromise a WooCommerce
Back in March 2023, I noticed an interesting security advisory that was published by Wordfence about a critical “Authentication Bypass and Privilege Escalation” (aka CVE-2023-28121) affecting the “WooCommerce Payments” plugin which has more...
SecurePwn Part 2: Leaking Remote Memory Contents (CVE-2023-22897)
While my last finding affecting SecurePoint’s UTM was quite interesting already, I was hit by a really hard OpenSSL Heartbleed flashback with this one. The following exploit works against both the admin portal on port 11115 as well as the user portal on port...
SecurePwn Part 1: Bypassing SecurePoint UTM’s Authentication (CVE-2023-22620)
While working on a recent customer engagement, I discovered two fascinating and somewhat weird bugs in SecurePoint’s UTM firewall solution. The first one, aka CVE-2023-22620, is rated critical for an attacker to bypass the entire authentication and gain access...
From Zero to Hero Part 2: From SQL Injection to RCE on Intel DCM (CVE-2022-21225)
From Zero to Hero Part 1: Bypassing Intel DCM’s Authentication by Spoofing Kerberos and LDAP Responses (CVE-2022-33942)
This small series of two blog posts covers an entire vulnerability chain to go from unauthenticated user to full remote code execution against Intel’s Data Center Manager (up to version 4.1.1.45749).The chain’s first vulnerability bypasses DCM’s entire authentication process.
WordPress Transposh: Exploiting a Blind SQL Injection via XSS
Introduction You probably have read about my recent swamp of CVEs affecting a WordPress plugin called Transposh Translation Filter, which resulted in more than $30,000 in bounties: [CVE-2021-24910] Transposh <= 1.0.7 “tp_tp” Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site...
AWAE Course and OSWE Exam Review
Introduction This is a review of the Advanced Web Attacks and Exploitation (WEB-300) course and its OSWE exam by Offensive-Security. I’ve taken this course because I was curious about what secret tricks this course will offer for its money, especially...