WP Symposium < 11.12.24 - Arbitrary File Upload

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2011-5051
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 28, 2011
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin before 11.12.24 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension using (1) uploadify/upload_admin_avatar.php or (2) uploadify/upload_profile_avatar.php, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory inside the webroot.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-symposium (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 11.12.24
Patched Version
  • 11.12.24
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