WebPros Plesk vulnerabilities

A Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition leading to insecure symlink following in Plesk causes local privilege escalation to root via arbitrary file/directory ownership takeover.

Path traversal in Plesk's Backup Manager causes arbitrary file write as root by an authenticated customer.

A critical local privilege escalation via OS command injection vulnerability has been discovered in Plesk for Linux, affecting all versions from 18.0.34 before 18.0.79.9 and 18.0.80.5. The vulnerability allows a customer or reseller with shell access (or allowed to change their own shell access) to elevate privileges to the root account on the hosting server.

Improper neutralization of special elements in in Plesk's DNS zone management functionality allows remote authenticated users to disclose arbitrary local files and escalate privileges.

Incorrect database cloning process in Plesk from 18.0.52 before 18.0.79.6 and 18.0.80.2 allows a low-privileged user (customer, reseller) to execute arbitrary code on behalf of the database server administrator.

Improper privilege management in the XML-RPC API of Plesk before 18.0.80, allows an authenticated reseller to obtain an administrative session for the root user account.

Incorrect authorization in the XML-RPC API of WebPros Plesk before 18.0.78.4 allows a low-privileged authenticated customer to look up domains they do not own, because ownership is enforced only for certain lookup filters and schema validation is bypassed for legacy protocol versions. This results in cross-tenant disclosure of other tenants' FTP credentials stored in cleartext, which can be leveraged to execute code as another tenant's system user.

An improper authorization vulnerability in the Plesk XML API allows an authenticated user to inject arbitrary configuration directives, resulting in arbitrary file write as root and full privilege escalation on the underlying server.

Plesk contains an XPath injection vulnerability in the APS Application Catalog search functionality, where user-supplied input is interpolated into XPath queries without proper sanitization. This allows an authenticated, low-privileged user to execute arbitrary operating system commands on the server, resulting in local privilege escalation.