CVE-2012-1125

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php in the Kish Guest Posting plugin before 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the folder parameter.

Affected products

Kishore Asokan Kish Guest Posting Plugin: through 1.1; 1.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0145.html
http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/kish-guest-posting/trunk/readme.txt
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/403694/kish-guest-posting/trunk/uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php
http://secunia.com/advisories/47688
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18412
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/06/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/08/1
http://www.osvdb.org/78479
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51638
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79563
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0145.html

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