Creative Contact Form < 1.0.0 - Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2014-8739
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published October 23, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Gianni Angelozzi
Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in server/php/UploadHandler.php in the jQuery File Upload Plugin 6.4.4 for jQuery, as used in the Creative Solutions Creative Contact Form (formerly Sexy Contact Form) before 1.0.0 for WordPress and before 2.0.1 for Joomla!, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a PHP file with an PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in files/, as exploited in the wild in October 2014.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sexy-contact-form (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.0
Patched Version
  • 1.0.0
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