Asgaros Forum <= 2.7.0 - Insufficient Authorization to Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2023-5604
CVSS Medium (6.6)
Publicly Published December 6, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Rafael Aristodimou
Description

The Asgaros Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized control of the plugin's settings due to an insufficient capability check on the forum options update in all versions up to 2.7.1 (exclusive). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to modify the plugin's settings so that they can upload malicious PHP files that can be used for remote code execution.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug asgaros-forum (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.7.1
Patched Version
  • 2.7.1
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