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Obsidian Plugin Persistence

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Disclosed
Sep 16, 2022
Created
Sep 16, 2025

Description

This module searches for Obsidian vaults for a user, and uploads a malicious
community plugin to the vault. The vaults must be opened with community
plugins enabled (NOT restricted mode), but the plugin will be enabled
automatically.

Tested against Obsidian 1.7.7 on Kali, Ubuntu 22.04, and Windows 10.

Authors

h00die
Thomas Byrne

Platform

OSX,Unix,Windows

Architectures

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/persistence/obsidian_plugin
    msf exploit(obsidian_plugin) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(obsidian_plugin) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(obsidian_plugin) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(obsidian_plugin) > exploit
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