WP Coder <= 2.5.1 - Remote File Inclusion leading to Remote Code Execution via Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2021-25053
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 5, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The WP Coder WordPress plugin before 2.5.2 within the wow-company admin menu page allows to include() arbitrary file with PHP extension (as well as with data:// or http:// protocols), thus leading to CSRF RCE.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-coder (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.1
Patched Version
  • 2.5.2
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