SP Project & Document Manager <= 4.23 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2021-4225
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published July 28, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher pang0lin
Description

The SP Project & Document Manager WordPress plugin before 4.24 allows any authenticated users, such as subscribers, to upload files. The plugin attempts to prevent PHP and other similar files that could be executed on the server from being uploaded by checking the file extension. It was discovered that on Windows servers, the security checks in place were insufficient, enabling bad actors to potentially upload backdoors on vulnerable sites.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sp-client-document-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.24
Patched Version
  • 4.24
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