Business Directory Plugin <= 5.11 - Authenticated PHP4 Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2021-24248
CVSS High (7.2)
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 5.11.1 did not properly check for imported files, forbidding certain extension via a blacklist approach, allowing administrator to import an archive with a .php4 inside for example, leading to RCE

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug business-directory-plugin (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.11
Patched Version
  • 5.11.1
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