Holding Pattern <= 0.6 - Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2015-1172
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published January 18, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Alexander Borg
Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in admin/upload-file.php in the Holding Pattern theme (aka holding_pattern) 0.6 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with a PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug holding_pattern (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.6
Patched Version
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