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Wordpress Front-end Editor File Upload

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Disclosed
Jul 4, 2012
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

The WordPress Front-end Editor plugin contains an authenticated file upload
vulnerability. An attacker can upload arbitrary files to the upload folder because
the plugin uses its own file upload mechanism instead of the WordPress API, which
incorrectly allows uploads of any file type.

Authors

Sammy
Roberto Soares Espreto [email protected]

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/unix/webapp/wp_frontend_editor_file_upload
    msf exploit(wp_frontend_editor_file_upload) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(wp_frontend_editor_file_upload) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(wp_frontend_editor_file_upload) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(wp_frontend_editor_file_upload) > exploit
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