Responsive Thumbnail Slider < 1.0.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2015-10144
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published August 29, 2015
Last Updated July 25, 2025
Researcher Arash Khazaei
Description

The Responsive Thumbnail Slider plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type sanitization in the via the image uploader in versions up to 1.0.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected sites server using a double extension which may make remote code execution possible.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-responsive-thumbnail-slider (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.1
Patched Version
  • 1.0.1
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