Sexy Contact Form: A security weakness

Sexy Contact Form 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.

CVE / CNA score 9.8 CVSS · cve@mitre.org

NVD score 9.8 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov

Component: Sexy Contact Form
Plugin slug: sexy-contact-form
Affected: See vendor advisory
Safe version: See mitigation notes
Published: Feb 08, 2020
Weakness: CWE-434 — Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

This CVE was published Feb 08, 2020 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Sexy Contact Form 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.

Source record

Technical description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in server/php/UploadHandler.php in the jQuery File Upload Plugin 6.4.4 for jQuery, as used in the Creative Solutions Creative Contact Form (formerly Sexy Contact Form) before 1.0.0 for WordPress and before 2.0.1 for Joomla!, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a PHP file with an PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in files/, as exploited in the wild in October 2014.

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Update, patch or deactivate.

Technical description

Primary and upstream sources