Wp Symposium: A security weakness
Wp Symposium 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
- Wp Symposium
- Plugin slug
wp-symposium- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Jan 13, 2015
- Weakness
- NVD-CWE-Other
This CVE was published Jan 13, 2015 and is one of 10 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Wp Symposium 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 UploadHandler.php in the WP Symposium plugin 14.11 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in server/php/.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P