Squeeze Plugin up to 1.7.11 on WordPress unrestricted upload

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Squeeze Plugin up to 1.7.11. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-16985. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Squeeze Plugin up to 1.7.11 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Squeeze WordPress plugin before 1.7.12 does not validate the file type or extension of the per-size image data written by one of its attachment-update actions, allowing users with the upload_files capability (Author and above) to write an executable PHP file into the uploads directory and achieve remote code execution.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-16985 since 07/24/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1608.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.7.12 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Squeeze Plugin

Version

• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.7.8
• 1.7.9
• 1.7.10
• 1.7.11

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