A vulnerability was found in estatik Plugin up to 2.2.x on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file wp-admin/admin-ajax.php of the component File Upload. The manipulation of the argument es_media_images[] with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The estatik plugin before 2.3.0 for WordPress has unauthenticated arbitrary file upload via es_media_images[] to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

The weakness was disclosed 09/16/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-10958 since 09/13/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1608.002.

By approaching the search of inurl:wp-admin/admin-ajax.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 2.3.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The entry VDB-141813 is pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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