fix(mapping): a PHP method with a visibility modifier is a region

`^\s*function` matched a bare declaration and nothing else, so every method
written the way modern PHP writes them -- `public function`, `protected
function`, `private static function` -- was invisible to the region model.

The effect is not subtle on class-based plugins. MW WP Form's
`class.mail.php` produced ONE file-level region spanning 272 lines instead
of 16 method-scoped ones, and its `protected function _delete_files()` --
which holds CVE-2023-6559 -- was not a region at all. Paid Memberships Pro
happened to work only because that particular file omits the modifiers.

  class.mail.php   1 file-level region -> 16 method-scoped regions

Also adds the MW WP Form checkout as the PATH family's plugin, pinned at
3bdd33d (5.0.3) with CVE-2023-6559 verified in the code:

    protected function _delete_files() {
        foreach ( $this->attachments as $file ) {
            if ( file_exists( $file ) ) {
                unlink( $file );

and the fix at 02ebc67 replacing the existence check with `realpath()`,
`is_file()` and a directory-confinement test. `unlink` is a modelled path
sink and `realpath` a modelled sanitizer, so this is a pair the engine
should separate rather than merely flag -- which is what makes it worth
more than a single hit.

Gates byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
This commit is contained in:
Marius Ciepluch
2026-09-09 17:33:36 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent f13934c663
commit 37a6594703
3 changed files with 70 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
# MW WP Form 5.0.3 -- a WordPress plugin with an arbitrary file deletion.
#
# The PATH family's checkout, chosen so the class-by-class table (5.8) has more than one flaw class in it.
# Verified in the code: at this commit `classes/services/class.mail.php:259` reads
#
# protected function _delete_files() {
# foreach ( $this->attachments as $file ) {
# if ( file_exists( $file ) ) {
# unlink( $file );
#
# and the fix (02ebc67, "fix Delete only attachments in MW_WP_Form_Mail_Service->_delete_files()") replaces
# the existence check with `realpath()`, `is_file()` and a confinement test against the plugin's own upload
# directory. `unlink` is a modelled path sink and `realpath` a modelled sanitizer, so this is a pair the
# engine should be able to separate rather than merely flag.
name = "mwwpform"
url = "https://github.com/inc2734/mw-wp-form.git"
commit = "3bdd33d834afe449c898b78ed6f71a57193df71b"
language = "php"
license = "GPL-2.0"
license_file = "readme.txt"
measures = ["detection"]
note = """
The parent of the fix commit; released as 5.0.3, fixed in 5.0.4 (2023-12-08). Nothing is vendored -- the
recipe fetches on request and CI never does.
"""
[[known]]
id = "CVE-2023-6559"
family = "path"
weakness = "arbitrary file deletion: an attachment path reaches unlink() behind a file_exists check that confines nothing"
file = "classes/services/class.mail.php"
function = "_delete_files"
line = 259
reference = "fixed in 02ebc67b5856787e25c357ce928b61f8e37920f4, which adds realpath(), is_file() and a directory-confinement test; the vulnerable line is verified in the checkout"
in_scope = true
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@@ -218,7 +218,13 @@ _PHP_REGISTRATION = re.compile(
_PHP_REST_ROUTE = re.compile(r"\bregister_rest_route\s*\(")
_PHP_CALLBACK = re.compile(r"""['"]callback['"]\s*=>\s*""" + _PHP_CALLABLE)
_PHP_PERMISSION = re.compile(r"""['"]permission_callback['"]\s*=>\s*(?P<value>[^,\)]+)""")
_PHP_FUNCTION = re.compile(r"^\s*function\s+(?P<name>[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\s*\(")
# A method carries visibility and modifiers before `function`, and modern PHP always writes them. Matching
# only a bare `function` made every class-based plugin ONE file-level region: MW WP Form's
# `protected function _delete_files()` was invisible, while Paid Memberships Pro's methods happened to
# work because that file omits the modifiers.
_PHP_FUNCTION = re.compile(
r"^\s*(?:(?:final|abstract|public|protected|private|static)\s+)*function\s+&?\s*(?P<name>[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\s*\("
)
def _php_entry_points(target: FileTarget, text: str) -> list[EntryPointRecord]:
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@@ -332,3 +332,30 @@ def test_an_array_callable_is_a_handler_too(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
assert by_name["get_order"].kind == "route", "an array callable registers a route"
assert by_name["get_order"].access_level == "authenticated", "its permission_callback is not __return_true"
assert by_name["fetch"].access_level == "public", "nopriv, through an array callable"
def test_a_php_method_with_a_visibility_modifier_is_a_region(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
"""Modern PHP always writes `public`/`protected`/`private` before `function`.
Matching only a bare `function` made every class-based plugin ONE file-level region: MW WP Form's
`protected function _delete_files()` was invisible, and its file went from 16 method-scoped regions to a
single one spanning everything. Paid Memberships Pro happened to work only because that file omits the
modifiers.
"""
from openultrasast.mapping import analyze_entry_points
from openultrasast.preprocess import preprocess_repository
(tmp_path / "svc.php").write_text(
"<?php\n"
"class Service {\n"
" public function open($p) { return fopen($p, 'r'); }\n"
" protected function _delete_files($f) { unlink($f); }\n"
" private static function helper($x) { return $x; }\n"
" function bare($y) { echo $y; }\n"
"}\n"
)
_, targets = preprocess_repository(tmp_path)
names = {entry.function_name for entry in analyze_entry_points(tmp_path, targets)}
assert {"open", "_delete_files", "helper", "bare"} <= names