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Wordpress MasterStudy Admin Account Creation

Disclosed
02/18/2022
Created
03/07/2022

Description

MasterStudy LMS, a WordPress plugin, prior to 2.7.6 is affected by a privilege escalation where an unauthenticated user is able to create an administrator account for wordpress itself.

Author(s)

  • h00die
  • Numan Türle

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use auxiliary/admin/http/wp_masterstudy_privesc
msf auxiliary(wp_masterstudy_privesc) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(wp_masterstudy_privesc) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(wp_masterstudy_privesc) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(wp_masterstudy_privesc) > run 

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