Script `http-vuln-cve2017-1001000`

Script types: portrule
Categories: vuln, safe
Download: https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/scripts/http-vuln-cve2017-1001000.nse

Script Summary

Attempts to detect a privilege escalation vulnerability in Wordpress 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 that allows unauthenticated users to inject content in posts.

The script connects to the Wordpress REST API to obtain the list of published posts and grabs the user id and date from there. Then it attempts to update the date field in the post with the same date information we just obtained. If the request doesn’t return an error, we mark the server as vulnerable.

References: https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html

Script Arguments

http-vuln-cve2017-1001000.uri: Wordpress root directory on the website. Default: /
slaxml.debug: See the documentation for the slaxml library.
http.host, http.max-body-size, http.max-cache-size, http.max-pipeline, http.pipeline, http.truncated-ok, http.useragent: See the documentation for the http library.
vulns.short, vulns.showall: See the documentation for the vulns library.
smbdomain, smbhash, smbnoguest, smbpassword, smbtype, smbusername: See the documentation for the smbauth library.

Example Usage

nmap --script http-vuln-cve2017-1001000 --script-args http-vuln-cve2017-1001000="uri" <target>
nmap --script http-vuln-cve2017-1001000 <target>

Script Output

PORT   STATE SERVICE REASON
80/tcp open  http    syn-ack
| http-vuln-cve2017-1001000:
|   VULNERABLE:
|   Content Injection in Wordpress REST API
|     State: VULNERABLE (Exploitable)
|     IDs:  CVE:CVE-2017-1001000
|     Risk factor: Medium  CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)
|       The privilege escalation vulnerability in WordPress REST API allows
|       the visitors to edit any post on the site
|       Versions 4.7.0 and 4.7.1 are known to be affected
|
|     References:
|_      https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/content-injection-vulnerability-wordpress-rest-api.html

Requires

Author:

Vinamra Bhatia