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The Plainview Activity Monitor plugin for WordPress, prior to version 20180826, contains an OS command injection vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in the handling of the 'ip' parameter in requests to wp-admin/admin.php?page=plainview_activity_monitor&tab=activity_tools, where unsanitized input is passed to the operating system shell, allowing an attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands.
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This three-file repository contains a repaired Python implementation of Exploit-DB 50110 for CVE-2018-15877, an authenticated remote command-execution flaw in the Plainview Activity Monitor WordPress plugin. The primary and only code file, `50110-fixed.py`, uses `requests.Session` rather than manually parsing `Set-Cookie`, logs in through WordPress, validates the authenticated session, and reuses that session for the proof-of-concept and interactive command loop. It POSTs an `ip` parameter containing `google.com.tr | <command>` to the plugin's Activity Tools page, exploiting shell execution of the plugin's `dig` lookup input. Command stdout is parsed from the `<p>Output from dig: </p>` response marker. The README documents the original cookie-handling failure and the session, error-handling, timeout, input-normalization, and interactive usability changes. This is a functional operational exploit rather than a scanner: it requires authorized WordPress credentials and yields interactive command execution as the web-server account.
This repository contains a single Metasploit module targeting a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2018-15877) in the Plainview Activity Monitor WordPress plugin (versions 20161228 and prior). The exploit requires valid WordPress credentials and leverages a command injection flaw in the 'ip' parameter of the activities_overview.php file, accessible via the /wp-admin/admin.php endpoint. The module logs in to WordPress, crafts a malicious POST request to the vulnerable plugin page, and injects a PHP payload for execution on the server. The code is written in Ruby and follows standard Metasploit module structure, with clear separation of initialization, checking, and exploitation logic. The exploit is operational and provides remote code execution capabilities to the attacker.
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