MapPress Maps for WordPress <= 2.73.12 - Admin+ File Upload to Remote Code Execution

6.0
Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE CVE-2022-0537
CVSS 6.0 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 14, 2022
Last Updated January 23, 2023
Researcher qerogram

Description

The MapPress Maps for WordPress plugin before 2.73.13 allows a high privileged user to bypass the DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT and DISALLOW_FILE_MODS settings and upload arbitrary files to the site through the "ajax_save" function. The file is written relative to the current 's stylesheet directory, and a .php file extension is added. No validation is performed on the content of the file, triggering an RCE vulnerability by uploading a web shell. Further the name parameter is not sanitized, allowing the payload to be uploaded to any directory to which the server has write access.

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug mappress-google-maps-for-wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.73.13, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 2.73.13
Patched Version
  • 2.73.13

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