PT-2018-14943 · Yoast · Yoast Seo

Published 2018-11-28 · Updated 2019-01-31 · CVE-2018-19370

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Yoast SEO (wordpress-seo) plugin versions prior to 9.2.0

Description A race condition issue in the unzip file function within the admin/import/class-import-settings.php file of the Yoast SEO plugin allows an SEO Manager to execute commands on the operating system through a ZIP import.

Recommendations For versions prior to 9.2.0, update to version 9.2.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19370

Affected Products

Yoast Seo

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/pull/11502/commits/3bfa70a143f5ea3ee1934f3a1703bb5caf139ffa · Exploit
• 🔥 https://youtube.com/watch?v=nL141dcDGCY · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19370 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/#developers · Note