Simple Ads Manager <= 2.5.94 - Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2015-2825
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published April 1, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Tran Dinh Tien (tien.d.tran () itas vn), ITAS Team
Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in sam-ajax-admin.php in the Simple Ads Manager plugin before 2.5.96 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the path parameter.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-ads-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.94
Patched Version
  • 2.5.96
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