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CVE-2025-14156 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the Fox LMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 1.0.5.1. The vulnerability is due to improper validation of the 'role' parameter in the '/fox-lms/v1/payments/create-order' REST API endpoint. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to create new user accounts with arbitrary roles, including administrator, leading to the potential for complete site compromise.
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This repository contains a single Python exploit script (CVE-2025-14156.py) targeting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2025-14156) in the Fox LMS WordPress plugin, versions 1.0.4.7 through 1.0.5.1. The exploit abuses the '/wp-json/fox-lms/v1/payments/create-order' REST API endpoint, which fails to properly validate the 'role' parameter when creating new users. By sending a crafted POST request, the script creates a new administrator account on the target WordPress site without authentication. The script is operational, providing hardcoded credentials for the new admin user and confirming success via session cookies or response content. The repository also includes a README with detailed usage instructions, a license file, and a requirements.txt listing 'requests' as a dependency. No detection or scanning functionality is present; the script is a direct exploit. The main attack vector is network-based, requiring only HTTP(S) access to the vulnerable endpoint.
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