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CVE-2012-5318

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.5% 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 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a double extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the folder parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1125.

Affected products

• Kishore Asokan Kish Guest Posting Plugin: 1.2

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/47688
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/08/1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47688
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/08/1

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