Modern Events Calendar Lite <= 5.16.4 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload leading to Remote Code Execution

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2021-24145
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published January 29, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Nguyen Van Khanh
Description

Arbitrary file upload in the Modern Events Calendar Lite WordPress plugin, versions before 5.16.5, did not properly check the imported file, allowing PHP ones to be uploaded by administrator by using the 'text/csv' content-type in the request.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug modern-events-calendar-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.16.4
Patched Version
  • 5.16.5
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