Contact Form Maker: Filesystem traversal
Contact Form Maker is affected by filesystem traversal. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. A crafted path can escape the intended directory and reach files or directories elsewhere on the server.
- Component
- Contact Form Maker
- Plugin slug
contact-form-maker- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Apr 29, 2019
This CVE was published Apr 29, 2019 and is one of 4 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Contact Form Maker 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 WebDorado Contact Form plugin before 1.13.5 for WordPress allows CSRF via the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php action parameter, with resultant local file inclusion via directory traversal, because there can be a discrepancy between the $_POST['action'] value and the $_GET['action'] value, and the latter is unsanitized.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary and upstream sources
- NVD record for CVE-2019-11591
- Upstream reference seclists.org
- Upstream reference lists.openwall.net
- WordPress.org plugin page wordpress.org
- Upstream reference wpvulndb.com
- Upstream reference seclists.org
- Upstream reference lists.openwall.net
- WordPress.org plugin page wordpress.org
- Upstream reference wpvulndb.com