Website Contact Form With File Upload < 1.4 - Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE Not available
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published April 1, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Claudio Viviani
Description

The Website Contact Form With File Upload plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the upload_file function in versions before 1.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected sites server which may make remote code execution possible.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug website-contact-form-with-file-upload (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.4, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.4
Patched Version
  • 1.4
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