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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: asgaros-forum: CVE-2023-5604: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 6, 2023
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The Asgaros Forum plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized control of the plugin's settings due to an insufficient capability check on the forum options update in all versions up to 2.7.1 (exclusive). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to modify the plugin's settings so that they can upload malicious PHP files that can be used for remote code execution.

Solution

asgaros-forum-plugin-cve-2023-5604
Title
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