User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin 1.1.1 - Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE Not available
CVSS Medium (6.5)
Publicly Published August 1, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Adrien Thierry
Description

The User Meta plugin for wordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Uploads in versions up to, and including 1.1.1, due to insufficient file type validation in the user-meta/framework/helper/uploader.php file. This makes it possible for attackers to upload malicious files and achieve remote code execution.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-meta (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 1.1.1 - 1.1.1
Patched Version
  • 1.1.2
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