WP Live Chat Support Pro <= 8.0.06 - Remote Code Execution via unrestricted file upload

9.8
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2018-12426
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published March 11, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Riccardo ten Cate

Description

The WP Live Chat Support Pro plugin before 8.0.07 for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution due to client-side validation of allowed file types, as demonstrated by a v1/remote_upload request with a .php filename and the image/jpeg content type.

Wordfence blocked 471,358 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for wp-live-chat-support-pro

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-live-chat-support-pro
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 8.0.07, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 8.0.06
Patched Version
  • 8.0.07

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