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ModSecurity rules for Tikiwiki 1.x tiki-graph_formula.php Function Injection Vulnerability

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A new vulnerability has been found in Tikiwiki. Read more about it here.

I’ve created the following ModSecurity rule to block it.

SecDefaultAction “log,deny,phase:2,status:403,t:urlDecodeUni,t:lowercase”

SecRule REQUEST_FILENAME “tiki-graph_formula.php” “chain,msg:’TIKIWIKI tiki-graph_formula.php link inclusion attempt’,severity:2”
SecRule ARGS:/^s*[a-z]+$/ “^(ht|f)tps?://”

SecRule REQUEST_FILENAME “tiki-graph_formula.php” “chain,msg:’TIKIWIKI tiki-graph_formula.php f parameter Function Injection Vulnerability’,severity:2”
SecRule ARGS_NAMES “^s*f[.*]$”

Ivan, I hope these rules survive your scrutiny 😉

Updated at 13:50: The first rule only covered the file inclusion in the title parameter which was what I was seeing in my logs. These rules should cover both the inclusion and the injection.

ModSecurity rule for Tikiwiki XSS

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I just read about a Tikiwiki XSS here. Since the Vuurmuur wiki runs Tikiwiki I created a ModSecurity rule for it:

SecDefaultAction “log,deny,phase:2,status:403,t:urlDecodeUni,t:lowercase”

# XSS in remind password field
SecRule REQUEST_METHOD “^post$” “chain,msg:’TIKIWIKI lost password XSS'”
SecRule REQUEST_FILENAME “tiki-remind_password.php” “chain”
SecRule ARGS:/s*username/ “!^(:?[a-z0-9-_]{1,37})$”

This allows only valid usernames to be entered.

Update: Ivan Ristic privately pointed me at some possible problems with the rule:

  1. the escaping of the – and _ chars is not needed, although it seems to be harmless.
  2. the $ at the end of the filename is dangerous, because Apache treats tiki-remind_password.php/xxx as tiki-remind_password.php. In this case the rule is evaded.
  3. PHP (which Tikiwiki uses) ignores leading spaces in request arguments. So it treats ‘ username’ the same as ‘username’. The rule needs to deal with that.

Thanks for your feedback Ivan!

Old rule:

SecDefaultAction “log,deny,phase:2,status:403,t:urlDecodeUni,t:lowercase”

# XSS in remind password field
SecRule REQUEST_METHOD “^post$” “chain,msg:’TIKIWIKI lost password XSS’”
SecRule REQUEST_FILENAME “tiki-remind_password.php$” “chain”
SecRule ARGS:username “!^(:?[a-z0-9-_]{1,37})$”