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WordPress Pixabay Images PHP Code Upload

Disclosed
Jan 19, 2015
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits multiple vulnerabilities in the WordPress plugin Pixabay
Images 2.3.6. The plugin does not check the host of a provided download URL
which can be used to store and execute malicious PHP code on the system.

Author

h0ng10

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

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/unix/webapp/wp_pixabay_images_upload
msf exploit(wp_pixabay_images_upload) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(wp_pixabay_images_upload) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(wp_pixabay_images_upload) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(wp_pixabay_images_upload) > exploit

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