rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress - XML injection (XXE)

Severity pending

Detected by

Fluid Attacks SAST Scanner

Disclosed by

Andres Roldan

Offensive Team, Fluid Attacks

Summary

Full name

rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress 4.6.2 - XML injection (XXE)

Code name

State

Private

Release date

Dec 6, 2024

Affected product

rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress

Affected version(s)

Version 4.6.2

Vulnerability name

XML injection (XXE)

Vulnerability type

Remotely exploitable

No

CVSS v4.0 vector string

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AT:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Exploit available

No

Description

rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress 4.6.2 was found to be vulnerable. Access to external entities in XML parsing is enabled in myapp/lib/getid3/getid3.lib.php.

Vulnerability

Skims by Fluid Attacks discovered a XML injection (XXE) in rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress 4.6.2. The following is the output of the tool:

Skims output

 716 | /**
 717 | * @param string $XMLstring
 718 | *
 719 | * @return array|false
 720 | */
 721 | public static function XML2array($XMLstring) {
 722 | if (function_exists('simplexml_load_string') && function_exists('libxml_disable_entity_loader')) {
 723 | // http://websec.io/2012/08/27/Preventing-XEE-in-PHP.html
 724 | // https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29378
 725 | $loader = libxml_disable_entity_loader(true);
>  726 |    $XMLobject = simplexml_load_string($XMLstring, 'SimpleXMLElement', LIBXML_NOENT);
   727 |    $return = self::SimpleXMLelement2array($XMLobject);
   728 |    libxml_disable_entity_loader($loader);
   729 |    return $return;
   730 |   }
   731 |   return false;
   732 |  }
   733 |
   734 |  /**
   735 |  * @param SimpleXMLElement|array|mixed $XMLobject
   736 |  *
       ^ Col 0

Our security policy

We have reserved the ID CVE-2025-22625 to refer to this issue from now on.

Disclosure policy

System Information

  • Version: rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress 4.6.2

Mitigation

There is currently no patch available for this vulnerability.

Timeline

Vulnerability discovered

Dec 6, 2024

Public disclosure

Jan 7, 2025

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