User Post Gallery Plugin up to 2.19 on WordPress command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in User Post Gallery Plugin up to 2.19 on WordPress. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation results in command injection. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-0039. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in User Post Gallery Plugin up to 2.19 on WordPress (Photo Gallery Software). Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a command injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-77. The product constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended command when it is sent to a downstream component. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The User Post Gallery - UPG plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass which leads to remote command execution due to the use of a nopriv AJAX action and user supplied function calls and parameters in versions up to, and including 2.19. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to call arbitrary PHP functions and perform actions like adding new files that can be webshells and updating the site's options to allow anyone to register as an administrator.

The weakness was presented 01/03/2023. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-0039 since 01/03/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 01/03/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1202 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• Photo Gallery Software

Name

• User Post Gallery Plugin

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19

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