College publisher Import <= 0.1 - Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2021-24254
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published April 11, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jin Huang
Description

The College publisher Import WordPress plugin through 0.1 does not check for the uploaded CSV file to import, allowing high privilege users to upload arbitrary files, such as PHP, leading to RCE. Due to the lack of CSRF check, the issue could also be exploited via a CSRF attack.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug college-publisher-import (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.1
Patched Version
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