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GHSA-9369-69wj-7m2f
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Details
Sink
tools/bazar/services/CSVManager.php line 372-399:
public function importEntry(array $importedEntries, string $formId): ?array
{
if (!$this->importdone) {
// ...
foreach ($importedEntries as $entry) {
$entry = unserialize(base64_decode($entry)); // <-- SINK
$entry = array_map('strval', $entry);
// ...
There is no ['allowed_classes' => false] argument; arbitrary classes are instantiated. The subsequent array_map('strval', $entry) additionally exercises __toString on each top-level array element, doubling the magic-method surface available to a gadget chain.
Source
tools/bazar/actions/BazarImportAction.php:
// formatArguments()
'mode' => (isset($_POST['submit_file']) && !empty($_FILES['fileimport']['name'])) ? 'submitfile' :
(isset($_POST['importfiche']) ? 'importentries' : 'default'),
'importentries' => $_POST['importfiche'] ?? null,
// run()
case 'importentries':
// ...
$importedEntries = $this->CSVManager->importEntry($this->arguments['importentries'], $vID['id']);
break;
$_POST['importfiche'] flows directly to the sink. The mode switches to 'importentries' whenever the request body contains the key, so an attacker need only POST importfiche[0]=<payload>.
Reachability
-
The action is registered as
bazarimport. The defaultBazaRpage (setup/sql/default-content.sql->BazaRpage entry, ships with{{bazar showexportbuttons="1"}}) routes?BazaR&vue=importer&id_typeannonce=<N>toBazarAction::run()->case VOIR_IMPORTER -> callAction('bazarimport', ...)(tools/bazar/actions/BazarAction.php:257-258). So the sink is reachable on a default install with no extra page authoring. -
BazarImportAction::run()calls$this->checkSecuredACL()with the default$adminOnly=true. Only wiki admins (or accounts the admin has added to thebazarimportaction ACL) can execute it. -
The
importentriesbranch does NOT invokeCsrfTokenController::checkToken(...). Greppingtools/bazar/actions/BazarImportAction.phpconfirms the action class has nocsrforcheckTokenreference at all. This is asymmetric with sibling actions:tools/bazar/controllers/FormController.phpdoes callcheckToken('main', 'POST', 'confirmDeleteToken')for destructive operations. The import path skips the same protection. -
Therefore the full kill chain for a remote attacker is:
a. Identify any admin user on the target wiki. b. Deliver an HTML page (email, chat, link) that auto-POSTs
importfiche[0]=<base64-encoded PHPGGC payload>tohttps://<wiki>/?BazaR&vue=importer&id_typeannonce=1. c. The admin's session cookie is sent automatically; the action passescheckSecuredACL; the unserialize fires.
Gadget chain availability
composer.json requires doctrine/annotations ^1.11 and doctrine/cache ^1.10. Both have published PHPGGC chains (Doctrine/RCE1, Doctrine/FW1, Doctrine/FW2, etc., from https://github.com/ambionics/phpggc). These chains terminate in either system($cmd) (RCE1) or file_put_contents($php_file, $contents) (FW1) entry-points -- both sufficient to give the attacker shell on the YesWiki host.
This advisory does not include a working PHPGGC chain end-to-end (writing a chain that survives YesWiki's exact dependency-resolved class graph is separate work). The PoC demonstrates the primitive (attacker-controlled class instantiation + magic-method execution); the chain is a downstream exercise using public tooling.
Past advisories cross-check
YesWiki's published GitHub advisories cover XSS, SQLi, arbitrary-PHP-file-write RCE, path traversal, and unauthenticated backup download. None covers an unserialize / PHP-object-injection sink, so this is a novel vulnerability class for the project.
PoC
A self-contained PoC reproducing the inner loop is available; it copies the exact two-line sink and proves that attacker-controlled __destruct runs without booting the full application.
Run:
php poc.php
Output (verbatim):
Crafted importfiche[0] payload (form-ready, urlencoded):
YToxOntpOjA7Tzo2OiJHYWRnZXQiOjE6e3M6NjoibWFya2VyIjtzOjIyOiJQV05FRC1GUk9NLVVOU0VSSUFMSVpFIjt9fQ%3D%3D
== before importEntry ==
[Gadget] __destruct fired with marker='PWNED-FROM-UNSERIALIZE'
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Object of class Gadget could not be converted to string ...
[Gadget] __destruct fired with marker='PWNED-FROM-UNSERIALIZE'
The two [Gadget] __destruct fired lines (one from inside the loop, one from the engine shutdown after the TypeError) confirm that the attacker-defined Gadget::__destruct executed -- with the attacker-supplied marker -- inside the unmodified importEntry code path.
End-to-end against a live YesWiki install:
curl -i -b "yeswiki_session=<admin_cookie>" \
-X POST "https://wiki.example.com/?BazaR&vue=importer&id_typeannonce=1" \
--data-urlencode \
"importfiche[0]=YToxOntpOjA7Tzo2OiJHYWRnZXQiOjE6e3M6NjoibWFya2VyIjtzOjIyOiJQV05FRC1GUk9NLVVOU0VSSUFMSVpFIjt9fQ=="
(replace the payload with a real PHPGGC Doctrine/FW1 or Doctrine/RCE1 output to obtain RCE on the target host).
Impact
- Authenticated wiki admin who lands on attacker-controlled HTML obtains remote code execution on the YesWiki server (via the cross-site forgery path; no admin interaction with the import UI is required).
- An attacker who has already compromised an admin password upgrades from "wiki content management" to "OS shell on the hosting box".
- The compromise survives the wiki layer entirely: the attacker can write web shells, exfiltrate other sites on shared hosting, modify
wakka.config.php, dump the MySQL database, and pivot from there.
Suggested fix
tools/bazar/services/CSVManager.php::importEntry-- pass['allowed_classes' => false]tounserialize, or, better, replace the base64+serialize transport with the JSON transport the current UI already uses (?api/entries/{formId}POST intools/bazar/presentation/javascripts/bazar-import.js). The serialized-PHP transport appears to be an unused legacy path.tools/bazar/actions/BazarImportAction.php-- add aCsrfTokenController::checkToken('main', 'POST', 'csrf-token', false)guard for the'importentries'mode (and any other state-changing modes). The existingtools/bazar/controllers/FormController.phppattern can be lifted directly.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights.
Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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