Description
The Plainview Activity Monitor plugin before 20180826 for WordPress is vulnerable to OS command injection via shell metacharacters in the ip parameter of a wp-admin/admin.php?page=plainview_activity_monitor&tab=activity_tools request.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Metasploit 1 module
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Wordpress Plainview Activity Monitor RCE
exploit/unix/webapp/wp_plainview_activity_monitor_rce
Exploit-DB 2
- WordPress Plugin Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Authenticated) (2) EDB-50110 · webapps · Jul 7, 2021
- WordPress Plugin Plainview Activity Monitor 20161228 - (Authenticated) Command Injection EDB-45274 · webapps · Aug 27, 2018 · verified
GitHub 3 repositories
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Cinnamon1212/CVE-2018-15877-RCE ★ 1 · Sep 4, 2021
Wordpress Plainview Activity Monitor Plugin RCE (20161228)
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firasotoom85-droid/wp-plainview-auth-RCE-broken-cookie-to-session-fix ★ 0 · Sep 25, 2026
WP Plainview Activity Monitor auth RCE fix: broken manual cookie parse to stable Session handling. CVE-2018-15877 educational fix.
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cved-sources/cve-2018-15877 ★ 0 · Feb 8, 2019
cve-2018-15877
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- https://github.com/aas-n/CVE/tree/master/CVE-2018-15877
- 45274 exploit
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155502/WordPress-Plainview-Activity-Monitor-20161228-Remote-Command-Execution.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163425/WordPress-Plainview-Activity-Monitor-20161228-Remote-Code-Execution.html