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Word Press File Manager: CVE-2020-25213: Word Press File Manager Plugin RCE

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Word Press File Manager: CVE-2020-25213: Word Press File Manager Plugin RCE

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/20/2020
Created
03/02/2022
Added
02/28/2022
Modified
05/03/2022

Description

The File Manager (wp-file-manager) plugin before 6.9 for WordPress allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code because it renames an unsafe example elFinder connector file to have the .php extension. This, for example, allows attackers to run the elFinder upload (or mkfile and put) command to write PHP code into the wp-content/plugins/wp-file-manager/lib/files/ directory. This was exploited in the wild in August and September 2020.

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Solution(s)

  • word-press-file-manager-upgrade-latest

References

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