Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress: A security weakness
Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress is affected by a security weakness. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- May 06, 2021
This CVE was published May 06, 2021 and is one of 6 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.1 did not properly check for imported files, forbidding certain extension via a blacklist approach, allowing administrator to import an archive with a .php4 inside for example, leading to RCE
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H