National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-5051
Original release date:01/04/2012
Last revised:01/05/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://wpsymposium-trac.sourcerepo.com/wpsymposium_trac/ticket/265
External Source: XF
Name: wpsymposium-admin-profile-file-upload(72012)
External Source: MISC
Name: http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-91/
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 46097
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 78042
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 78041
