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LG Simple Editor Command Injection (CVE-2023-40504)

Disclosed
Aug 4, 2023
Created
Aug 14, 2024

Description

Unauthenticated Command Injection in LG Simple Editor The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to inject arbitrary operating system commands which will get executed in the context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Authors

rgod
Michael Heinzl

Platform

Windows

Architectures

cmd

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

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