Hack-tastic Headache: Social Warfare Plugin’s Risky RCE Exploit Unleashed
CVE-2019-9978 is the gift that keeps on giving, with the Social Warfare WordPress Plugin 3.5.2 proving it’s always open season for remote code execution. Remember, when life gives you vulnerabilities, make sure your ports 8001 and 4444 are open. Who knew debugging could be so… entertaining?
Hot Take:
Oh, look! A WordPress plugin with more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese! This Social Warfare plugin seems to be waging war on its own users by letting anyone with some basic Python skills and an IP address play hacker for a day. Who needs enemies when you’ve got vulnerabilities like this?
Key Points:
- The exploit targets the Social Warfare WordPress plugin version 3.5.2 or earlier.
- It exploits a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2019-9978.
- Users can gain unauthorized access via the ‘swp_debug’ parameter.
- The exploit was tested on WordPress 5.1.1 with Ubuntu 20.04 using Python 3.x.
- A successful attack results in a reverse shell as the ‘www-data’ user.
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