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Wordpress Plainview Activity Monitor RCE

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Wordpress Plainview Activity Monitor RCE

Disclosed
08/26/2018
Created
11/29/2019

Description

Plainview Activity Monitor Wordpress plugin is vulnerable to OS command injection which allows an attacker to remotely execute commands on underlying system. Application passes unsafe user supplied data to ip parameter into activities_overview.php. Privileges are required in order to exploit this vulnerability. Vulnerable plugin version: 20161228 and possibly prior Fixed plugin version: 20180826

Author(s)

  • LydA(c)ric LEFEBVRE
  • Leo LE BOUTER

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

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

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