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
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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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