Business Directory Plugin <= 5.10.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload

8.8
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-24179
CVSS 8.8 (High)
Publicly Published April 11, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher 0xB9

Description

The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11 suffered from a Cross-Site Request Forgery issue, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator import files. As the plugin also did not validate uploaded files, it could lead to RCE.

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Vulnerability Details for Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug business-directory-plugin (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.11, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 5.10.1
Patched Version
  • 5.11

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