CVE-2021-24220: Multiple Thrive Themes < 2.0.0 - Arbitrary File Upload

🔍 Vulnerability Description

Thrive “Legacy” Rise by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Luxe by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Minus by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Ignition by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, FocusBlog by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Squared by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Voice WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Performag by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Pressive by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0, Storied by Thrive Themes WordPress theme before 2.0.0 register a REST API endpoint to compress images using the Kraken image optimization engine. By supplying a crafted request in combination with data inserted using the Option Update vulnerability, it was possible to use this endpoint to retrieve malicious code from a remote URL and overwrite an existing file on the site with it or create a new file.This includes executable PHP files that contain malicious code.

🌐 HTTP Request

GET /wp-content/themes/rise/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/storied/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Debian; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/minus/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/534.16+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/luxe/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/pressive/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/focusblog/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.139 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/squared/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.9
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/performag/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/voice/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

GET /wp-content/themes/ignition/style.css HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 14.5) AppleWebKit/618.3.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/618.3.5
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close

🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2021/CVE-2021-24220.yaml

🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2021-24220.pcap