CVE-2014-4725

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 60.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

The MailPoet Newsletters (wysija-newsletters) plugin before 2.6.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a crafted theme using wp-admin/admin-post.php and accessing the theme in wp-content/uploads/wysija/themes/mailp/.

Affected products

Mailpoet Newsletters: through 2.6.6; 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.6, 1.0, 1.0.1 (+62)

References

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/mass-exploit-of-wordpress-plugin-backdoors-sites-running-joomla-magento-too/
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/mailpoet-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild-breaking-thousands-of-wordpress-sites.html
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/malware-infection-breaking-wordpress-sites.html
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/remote-file-upload-vulnerability-on-mailpoet-wysija-newsletters.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/7
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters/changelog/
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/mass-exploit-of-wordpress-plugin-backdoors-sites-running-joomla-magento-too/
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/mailpoet-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild-breaking-thousands-of-wordpress-sites.html
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/malware-infection-breaking-wordpress-sites.html
http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/remote-file-upload-vulnerability-on-mailpoet-wysija-newsletters.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/7
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters/changelog/

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