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WordPress Plugin: wp-time-capsule: CVE-2024-8856: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

Nov 15, 2024

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 4, 2026

Description

The Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the the UploadHandler.php file and no direct file access prevention in all versions up to, and including, 1.22.21. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Solution

wp-time-capsule-plugin-cve-2024-8856

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8856
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fdc2de78-5601-461f-b2f0-c80b592ccb1b?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2024-49578
CVE-2024-8856
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-8856
CWE-434
EUVD-EUVD-2024-49578

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