{"id":51311,"date":"2023-04-03T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/34487\/Hackers-Exploit-WordPress-Plugin-Flaw-That-Gives-Full-Control-Of-Millions-Of-Sites.html"},"modified":"2023-04-03T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T15:09:14","slug":"hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-flaw-that-gives-full-control-of-millions-of-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-flaw-that-gives-full-control-of-millions-of-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit WordPress Plugin Flaw That Gives Full Control Of Millions Of Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/caution-tape-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Hackers exploit WordPress plugin flaw that gives full control of millions of sites\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-credit\">Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\"> <a class=\"comment-count icon-comment-bubble-down\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2023\/03\/hackers-exploit-wordpress-plugin-flaw-that-gives-full-control-of-millions-of-sites\/?comments=1\"> <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"comment-count-before\">reader comments<\/h4>\n<p> <span class=\"comment-count-number\">64<\/span> <span class=\"visually-hidden\"> with <\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"share-links\">\n<h4>Share this story<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p> <!-- cache hit 433:single\/related:db37bc74e1b0c9f309378f7bf594ffb4 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in a widely used WordPress plugin that gives them the ability to take complete control of millions of sites, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability, which carries a severity rating of 8.8 out of a possible 10, is present in Elementor Pro, a <a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/pricing\/\">premium plugin<\/a> running on more than 12 million sites powered by the WordPress content management system. Elementor Pro allows users to create high-quality websites using a wide range of tools, one of which is WooCommerce, a separate WordPress plugin. When those conditions are met, anyone with an account on the site\u2014say a subscriber or customer\u2014can create new accounts that have full administrator privileges.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability was discovered by Jerome Bruandet, a researcher with security firm NinTechNet. Last week, Elementor, the developer of the Elementor Pro plugin, <a href=\"https:\/\/elementor.com\/pro\/changelog\/\">released<\/a> version 3.11.7, which patched the flaw. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nintechnet.com\/high-severity-vulnerability-fixed-in-wordpress-elementor-pro-plugin\/\">post<\/a> published on Tuesday, Bruandet wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An authenticated attacker can leverage the vulnerability to create an administrator account by enabling registration (<code>users_can_register<\/code>) and setting the default role (<code>default_role<\/code>) to \u201cadministrator\u201d, change the administrator email address (<code>admin_email<\/code>) or, as shown below, redirect all traffic to an external malicious website by changing <code>siteurl<\/code> among many other possibilities:<\/p>\n<pre>MariaDB [example]&gt; SELECT * FROM `wp_options` WHERE `option_name`='siteurl';\n+-----------+-------------+------------------+----------+\n| option_id | option_name | option_value | autoload |\n+-----------+-------------+------------------+----------+\n| 1 | siteurl | https:\/\/evil.com | yes |\n+-----------+-------------+------------------+----------+\n1 row in set (0.001 sec)<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, researchers with a separate security firm, PatchStack, <a href=\"https:\/\/patchstack.com\/articles\/critical-elementor-pro-vulnerability-exploited\/\">report<\/a> that the vulnerability is under active exploitation. Attacks are coming from a variety of IP addresses, including:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\"> <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span> <\/aside>\n<ul>\n<li>193.169.194.63<\/li>\n<li>193.169.195.64<\/li>\n<li>194.135.30.6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Files uploaded to compromised sites often have the following names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wp-resortpack.zip<\/li>\n<li>wp-rate.php<\/li>\n<li>lll.zip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>URLs of compromised sites are often being changed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>away[dot]trackersline[dot]com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The broken access control vulnerability stems from Elementor Pro\u2019s use of the \u201celementor-pro\/modules\/woocommerce\/module.php\u201d component. When WooCommerce is running, this script registers the following AJAX actions:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint linenums:679\">\/** * Register Ajax Actions. * * Registers ajax action used by the Editor js. * * @since 3.5.0 * * @param Ajax $ajax *\/\npublic function register_ajax_actions( Ajax $ajax ) { \/\/ `woocommerce_update_page_option` is called in the editor save-show-modal.js. $ajax-&gt;register_ajax_action( 'pro_woocommerce_update_page_option', [ $this, 'update_page_option' ] ); $ajax-&gt;register_ajax_action( 'pro_woocommerce_mock_notices', [ $this, 'woocommerce_mock_notices' ] );\n}<\/pre>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint linenums:726\">\/** * Update Page Option. * * Ajax action can be used to update any WooCommerce option. * * @since 3.5.0 * * @param array $data *\/\npublic function update_page_option( $data ) { update_option( $data['option_name'], $data['editor_post_id'] );\n}\n<\/pre>\n<p>The update_option function \u201cis supposed to allow the Administrator or the Shop Manager to update some specific WooCommerce options, but user input aren\u2019t validated and the function lacks a capability check to restrict its access to a high privileged user only,\u201d Bruandet explained. He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Elementor uses its own AJAX handler to manage most of its AJAX actions, including <code>pro_woocommerce_update_page_option<\/code>, with the global <code>elementor_ajax<\/code> action. It is located in the \u201celementor\/core\/common\/modules\/ajax\/module.php\u201d script of the free version (which is required to run Elementor Pro) :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint linenums:119\">\/** * Handle ajax request. * * Verify ajax nonce, and run all the registered actions for this request. * * Fired by `wp_ajax_elementor_ajax` action. * * @since 2.0.0 * @access public *\/\npublic function handle_ajax_request() { if ( ! $this-&gt;verify_request_nonce() ) { $this-&gt;add_response_data( false, esc_html__( 'Token Expired.', 'elementor' ) ) -&gt;send_error( Exceptions::UNAUTHORIZED ); } ...\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone using Elementor Pro should ensure they\u2019re running 3.11.7 or later, as all previous versions are vulnerable. It\u2019s also a good idea for these users to check their sites for the signs of infection listed in the PatchStack post.<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/34487\/Hackers-Exploit-WordPress-Plugin-Flaw-That-Gives-Full-Control-Of-Millions-Of-Sites.html\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[10455],"class_list":["post-51311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity-blogs","tag-headlinehackerdata-lossflawwordpress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hackers Exploit WordPress Plugin Flaw 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