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SolarWinds Web Help Desk unauthenticated RCE

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Disclosed
Jan 28, 2026
Created
Feb 13, 2026

Description

This module exploits an access control bypass vulnerability (CVE-2025-40536) and an unsafe deserialization
vulnerability (CVE-2025-40551) to achieve unauthenticated RCE against a vulnerable SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
server.

Authors

Jimi Sebree
sfewer-r7

Platform

Linux,Unix,Windows

Architectures

x64, cmd

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 exploit/multi/http/solarwinds_webhelpdesk_rce
    msf exploit(solarwinds_webhelpdesk_rce) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(solarwinds_webhelpdesk_rce) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(solarwinds_webhelpdesk_rce) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(solarwinds_webhelpdesk_rce) > exploit
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