PT-2012-3096 · Kish · Kish Guest Posting Plugin

Henri Salo · Published 2012-10-08 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-1125

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kish Guest Posting plugin version 1.2 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the folder parameter. This is due to an unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php file.

Recommendations For Kish Guest Posting plugin version 1.2 and earlier, update to version 1.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php file to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the folder parameter in the affected upload functionality until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1125

Affected Products

Kish Guest Posting Plugin

References · 14

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/18412 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/51638 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0145.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/18412 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47688 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1125 · Security Note
• http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/403694/kish-guest-posting/trunk/uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php · Note
• http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/kish-guest-posting/trunk/readme.txt · Note
• http://osvdb.org/78479 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/11 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1125 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/08/1 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79563 · Note