PT-2018-9525 · WordPress · Wordpress

Orange Tsai + 2 · Published 2018-09-06 · Updated 2018-11-14 · CVE-2018-1000773

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.9.9

Description The issue is related to a CWE-20 Input Validation problem in thumbnail processing, which can lead to remote code execution. This can be exploited via thumbnail upload by an authenticated user. It may require additional plugins to be exploited, although this has not been confirmed.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 4.9.9, update to version 4.9.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1000773

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000773 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000773 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000773 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000773 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1000773 · Vendor Advisory
• https://theregister.co.uk/2018/08/20/php_unserialisation_wordpress_vuln · Note
• https://youtu.be/GePBmsNJw6Y?t=1763 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/105306 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000773 · Note