cformsII < 14.8 - Arbitrary File Upload

9.8
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2014-9473
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published December 29, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Zakhar Fedotkin

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in lib_nonajax.php in the CformsII plugin 14.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension via the cf_uploadfile2[] parameter, then accessing the file via a direct request to the file in the default upload directory.

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Vulnerability Details for cformsII

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug cforms2 (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 14.8, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 14.8
Patched Version
  • 14.8

Recent vulnerabilities in cformsII

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 cformsII <= 15.1.3 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-39435 7.2 Ilay Striechman June 1, 2026
2 cformsII <= 15.1.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2026-39436 4.3 Ilay Striechman May 25, 2026
3 cformsII <= 15.0.6 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-22149 7.2 emad January 15, 2024
4 cformsII <= 15.0.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-52203 4.4 emad January 3, 2024
5 cformsII <= 15.0.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Settings Updates CVE-2023-25449 4.3 Rio Darmawan March 8, 2023
6 CformsII <= 15.0.1 - Unauthenticated HTML Injection & Cross-Site Request Forgery CVE-2019-15238 8.8 Jerome Bruandet August 12, 2019
7 cformsII <= 14.13.2 - Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2017-18559 6.1 April 28, 2017
8 cformsII <= 14.12.3 - Authenticated SQL Injection CVE-2017-18570 7.2 April 24, 2017
9 cformsII < 14.6.10 - SQL Injection CVE-2015-9333 9.8 April 11, 2015
10 cformsII <= 13.1 - Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2014-10377 6.1 October 16, 2014

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