Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder: A security weakness
Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder is affected by a security weakness. The vulnerable path is reachable without authentication. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation.
- Component
- Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder
- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Feb 13, 2023
- Weakness
- Not assigned
This CVE was published Feb 13, 2023 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder 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 Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder WordPress plugin before 1.9.1 does not validate a parameter passed to the php extract function when loading templates, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to override the template path to read arbitrary files from the hosts file system. This may be escalated to RCE using PHP filter chains.
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N