Kish Guest Posting Plugin: A security weakness
Kish Guest Posting Plugin 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
- Kish Guest Posting Plugin
- Plugin slug
kish-guest-posting-plugin- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Oct 08, 2012
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-Other
This CVE was published Oct 08, 2012 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Kish Guest Posting Plugin 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
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php in the Kish Guest Posting plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a double extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the folder parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1125.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P