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ThinkAdmin v6 contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthorized attacker to read arbitrary files on the remote server. The vulnerability is exploited via a specially crafted GET request using the 'encode' parameter, which is not properly sanitized, enabling traversal outside the intended directory structure.
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This repository contains a proof-of-concept (POC) exploit for CVE-2020-25540, a directory traversal vulnerability in ThinkAdmin. The main file, 'poc.py', is a Python script that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files from a vulnerable ThinkAdmin installation. The script takes a target IP/domain and a file path as arguments, encodes the file path using a custom base36 encoding, and sends an HTTP GET request to the vulnerable endpoint ('/public/admin.html?s=admin/api.Update/get/encode/'). The server's response is expected to be a JSON object containing the base64-encoded file content, which the script decodes and prints. The repository also includes a README with usage instructions and a standard MIT license. No hardcoded endpoints or credentials are present, but the exploit targets a specific ThinkAdmin API endpoint that must be accessible over the network.
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