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CVE-2022-1609 is a critical vulnerability in the School Management Pro WordPress plugin (prior to version 9.9.7), where an obfuscated backdoor was injected into the license checking code. This backdoor registers a REST API handler that allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on the affected site, resulting in a full remote code execution (RCE) scenario. The free version of the plugin is not affected.
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Repository contains a single Python exploit script (cve-2022-1609.py) plus a short README and MIT license. The script targets CVE-2022-1609 described as a WordPress Weblizar backdoor. It performs unauthenticated remote command execution by sending an HTTP POST request to the WordPress REST endpoint '/wp-json/am-member/license' with form fields 'blowfish=1' and 'blowf' set to a PHP snippet: system('<command>');. The exploit includes a vulnerability check by running 'echo vulnerability_check' and verifying the marker appears in the response body. If vulnerable, it provides an interactive loop ('shell>') allowing the operator to run arbitrary commands until 'exit'. It auto-prepends 'http://' if the target URL lacks a scheme and uses the requests library for network communication.
This repository contains a Bash proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2022-1609, a vulnerability in the WordPress Weblizar plugin that allows unauthenticated remote code execution via a vulnerable REST API endpoint. The repository consists of two files: a README.md with usage instructions and exploit.sh, the main exploit script. The script takes a target URL as an argument, then provides an interactive shell-like interface, sending user-supplied commands to the target's /wp-json/am-member/license endpoint using curl. The payload leverages the vulnerable 'blowf' parameter to execute arbitrary system commands on the server. The exploit is operational and provides direct command execution as the web server user. The only fingerprintable endpoint is the vulnerable REST API path on the target WordPress instance.
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