CVE-2011-5051

Wp Symposium vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

4.2%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin before 11.12.24 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension using (1) uploadify/upload_admin_avatar.php or (2) uploadify/upload_profile_avatar.php, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory inside the webroot.

Affected vendor

Wpsymposium

Affected product

Wp Symposium

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2012-01-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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