Specialist (Unspecified Version) - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Upload

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE Not available
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published March 31, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jje Incovers
Description

The Specialist theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the upload-file.php file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files which may execute malicious code via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

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