WP Symposium <= 14.11 - Arbitrary File Upload

9.8
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2014-10021
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published December 11, 2014
Last Updated December 5, 2022
Researcher Claudio Viviani

Description

The WP Symposium plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the UploadHandler.php file in versions up to, and including, 14.11. This makes it possible for attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected sites server which may make remote code execution possible when the file is accessed from the server/php/directory.

Wordfence blocked 649,664 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Symposium

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-symposium (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 15.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 14.11
Patched Version
  • 15.1

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