Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk <= 2.149 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload

9.8
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2024-13365
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published February 11, 2025
Last Updated February 12, 2025
Researcher Lucio Sá

Description

The Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to the plugin uploading and extracting .zip archives when scanning them for malware through the checkUploadedArchive() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.149. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

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Vulnerability Details for Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug security-malware-firewall (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.150, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.149
Patched Version
  • 2.150

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