WP Live Chat Support Pro <= 8.0.06 - Remote Code Execution via unrestricted file upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2018-12426
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published March 11, 2019
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Riccardo ten Cate
Description

The WP Live Chat Support Pro plugin before 8.0.07 for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution due to client-side validation of allowed file types, as demonstrated by a v1/remote_upload request with a .php filename and the image/jpeg content type.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-live-chat-support-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 8.0.06
Patched Version
  • 8.0.07
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