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Wordpress: CVE-2019-8942: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

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Wordpress: CVE-2019-8942: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/19/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/27/2019
Modified
08/12/2020

Description

WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote code execution because an _wp_attached_file Post Meta entry can be changed to an arbitrary string, such as one ending with a .jpg?file.php substring. An attacker with author privileges can execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted image containing PHP code in the Exif metadata. Exploitation can leverage CVE-2019-8943.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_9_9
  • wordpress-upgrade-5_0_1

References

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