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Wordpress MasterStudy Admin Account Creation

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Disclosed
Feb 18, 2022
Created
Mar 7, 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.

Authors

h00die
Numan Türle

References

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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