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Elegant Themes Divi/Divi Builder/Extra/Bloom/Monarch Security Vulnerability

by James Golovich

This won’t be a typical full disclosure post. I will release that after sufficient time has passed to allow users to upgrade. The most I will say now is that logged in users had access to more than they should have. If your site does not have additional untrusted users this is not a major issue for you. Though everyone should upgrade immediately.

On 2/10/2016 I discovered a potential security issue with Elegant Themes Divi theme. Since I am not a customer of theirs I had some issues getting in touch with someone to disclose the information to, but after a few emails and a Twitter exchange I was able to convey the information.

In the interim, Elegant Themes had Securi do a complete code analysis to check for further issues and apparently they did not discover anything further than I already had.

On 2/17/2016 Elegant Themes released updated versions and contacted their customer list to tell them to upgrade. I haven’t seen the exact email sent.

I believe a customer of theirs tweeted out about the issue. I was going to wait to post this until Elegant Themes had a chance to do their own release.

I have not seen the updated code, but based on the description received it sounds like the issue should be resolved.

Affected Versions

  • Divi < 2.6.4
  • Diviv (legacy) < 2.3.4
  • Divi Builder < 1.2.4
  • Extra < 1.2.4
  • Bloom < 1.1.1
  • Monarch < 1.2.7

 

Sprout Invoices < 9.4 Security Vulnerabilities

by James Golovich

Sprout Invoices is a WordPress plugin for creating invoices from Sprout Apps. This is another low use plugin (1,000+ active installs on the free version as reported by the wordpress.org stats page). I believe that any issues related to an invoice/payment system need to be reported so people can get them updated before it hits them in the bank account.

Unauthenticated access to methods named init

Inside controllers/importers/Importer.php the class hooks into the ‘init’ WordPress action to provide access to various importer modules (ironically enough one of them is for the WP-Invoice package that I recently posted about). This setup allows an unauthenticated user to pass in the classname that is used to call the function ‘init’

I don’t know of any classes that come with a default WordPress install that are readily exploitable, but there could be other plugins/themes installed that could be easily exploited by being able to call their function by an arbitrary user.

sprout-importer

Unauthenticated uploading of CSV files

The CSV import module allows an unauthenticated user to upload CSV files, though it will not actually import without a valid nonce that does not appear to be leaked without having proper permissions. A malicious user could upload large files to attempt to fill up the storage space, though with the high limits available today it’s probably unlikely.

Unauthenticated access to unreleased JSON API

Dan Cameron, the developer, said that JSON API included was in development but abandoned in favor of the official WordPress REST API. Though in this release it was enabled and fully accessible to anyone without being logged in. At first glance it looks like there is some code to authenticate requests that contain ‘create-‘, but as long as that string is not included in $_REQUEST[‘si_json_api’] then it will pass along.

sprout-api

After the possible authentication function, php://input is read and passed to json_decode so any of the available API functions can be used which would allow you to create/view: clients, payments, estimates, and invoices.

Timeline

  • 1/15/2016 12:42am Initial contact form submitted
  • 1/15/2016 1:35pm Response from developer
  • 1/15/2016 5:01pm Full disclosure sent to developer
  • 1/18/2016 New version released

Beaver Builder Lite and Pro < 1.7.1 Security Issue

by James Golovich

Beaver Builder is a popular WordPress plugin that allows drag & drop editing of pages. I’m a big fan of this plugin it allows users to make some pretty great sites without a lot of work. Any plugin I’m going to use I have to do at least some minimal reading of the code to search for security issues. I discovered a few issues here, though what I did discover requires a valid WordPress user account (not just admin) to use them.

The wordpress.org page for the lite version claims there are 50,000+ active installs, I could not find any indication of how many users of the pro version there are.

Unauthorized AJAX Calls

The Beaver Builder plugin creates it’s own AJAX handler that is hooked into the ‘wp’ WordPress action.

bb-ajax

This looks solid at first glance. It requires a user to be logged in and also checks that the current_user_can() edit this post. Unfortunately as seen below, FLBuilderModel::get_post_id() allows passing the ‘post_id’ via HTTP POST data (abstracted away behind the self::get_post_data() function). A user is able to pass in HTTP POST ‘post_id=0’ and the current_user_can() function call is never run.

bb-getpostid

After a nefarious user circumvents those checks they are able to call any of the 40+ actions that Beaver Builder includes. Which would allow them to create/edit pages, manage services, list all users.

Timeline

  • 1/19/2016 3:30pm Sent request for contact information
  • 1/19/2016 10:54pm Response received
  • 1/20/2016 12:02am Security disclosure sent
  • 1/24/2016 Updated version released