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Creative Contact Form 4.6.2 Directory Traversal

Creative Contact Form 4.6.2 Directory Traversal
Posted Mar 8, 2020
Authored by Wolfgang Hotwagner

Creative Contact Form version 4.6.2 before Dec 03 2019 suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability.

tags | exploit
advisories | CVE-2020-9364
SHA-256 | aeb7f30880b5478f81755ab88a32b1174ba8a88701892c3ea6ca776d774d36f6

Creative Contact Form 4.6.2 Directory Traversal

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# Directory Traversal in Creative Contact Form

## Overview
* Identifier: AIT-SA-20200301-01
* Target: Creative Contact Form (for Joomla)
* Vendor: Creative Solutions
* Version: 4.6.2 (before Dec 03 2019)
* CVE: CVE-2020-9364
* Accessibility: Remote
* Severity: Critical
* Author: Wolfgang Hotwagner (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)

## Summary
[Creative Contact Form](https://creative-solutions.net/) is a responsive jQuery contact form for the Joomla content-management-system.

## Vulnerability Description
A directory traversal vulnerability resides inside the mailer component of the Creative Contact Form for Joomla. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive any files from the server via e-mail.

The vulnerable code is located in "helpers/mailer.php" at line 290:
```
if(isset($_POST['creativecontactform_upload'])) {
if(is_array($_POST['creativecontactform_upload'])) {
foreach($_POST['creativecontactform_upload'] as $file) {

// echo $file.'--';
$file_path = JPATH_BASE . '/components/com_creativecontactform/views/creativeupload/files/'.$file;
$attach_files[] = $file_path;
}
}
}
```

If an attacker puts "../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" into $_POST['creativecontactform_upload'], and enables "Send me a copy", the contact-form would send him the content of /etc/passwd via email.

_Note: this vulnerability might not be exploitable in the free version of Creative Contact Form since it does not allow "Send copy to sender"._

## Vulnerable Versions
Creative Contact Form Personal/Professional/Business 4.6.2 (before Dec 3 2019)

## Impact
An unauthenticated attacker could receive any file from the server

## Mitigation
Update to the current version

## References:
* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9364

## Vendor Contact Timeline

* `2019-12-02` Contacting the vendor
* `2019-12-02` Vendor published a fixed version
* `2019-03-01` Public disclosure

## Advisory URL
[https://www.ait.ac.at/ait-sa-20200301-01-directory-traversal-in-creative-contact-form](https://www.ait.ac.at/ait-sa-20200301-01-directory-traversal-in-creative-contact-form)



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