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Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

CVE-2019-14467

High
7.8/10

Summary

The Social Photo Gallery plugin 1.0 for WordPress allows Remote Code Execution by creating an album and attaching a malicious PHP file in the cover photo album, because the file extension is not checked.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-434 - Unrestricted Upload of File with dangerous type

'Unrestricted file upload with dangerous type' attacks involve an attacker uploading or transferring files of dangerous types to the server. The severity of such an attack depends upon the execution mechanism and the storage location of the uploaded file. Thus, it may range from simple defacement to arbitrary file execution, and complete system takeover.

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