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TikiWiki Wiki Edit Page Arbitrary Script Upload Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13768
Release Date: 2005-01-10
Last Update: 2005-02-07
Popularity: 10,873 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Tikiwiki 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1386


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in TikiWiki, which can be exploited by certain malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of images uploaded in the wiki edit page. This can be exploited to upload arbitrary PHP scripts to the "img/wiki_up/" directory and then execute them.

Successful exploitation requires permissions to upload pictures.

This vulnerability may be related to issue #6 in:
SA11344

Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in versions 1.7.9, 1.8.4.1, and 1.9rc3.1.
http://tikiwiki.org/Download

Also, check the "img/wiki_up/" directory to ensure that it doesn't contain any malicious scripts.

Disable the "Pictures" feature in the wiki admin panel.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2005-02-07: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=97

Other References:
SA11344:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11344/


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