Simple Schools Staff Directory: A security weakness
Simple Schools Staff Directory 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
- Simple Schools Staff Directory
- Plugin slug
simple-schools-staff-directory- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 20, 2021
This CVE was published Sep 20, 2021 and is one of 1 known issue for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Simple Schools Staff Directory 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 Simple Schools Staff Directory WordPress plugin through 1.1 does not validate uploaded logo pictures to ensure that are indeed images, allowing high privilege users such as admin to upload arbitrary file like PHP, leading to RCE
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H