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CVE-2018-12426

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

The WP Live Chat Support Pro plugin before 8.0.07 for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthenticated Remote Code Execution due to client-side validation of allowed file types, as demonstrated by a v1/remote_upload request with a .php filename and the image/jpeg content type.

Affected products

• CODECABIN_ WP Live Chat Support: before 8.0.07 — fixed in 8.0.07

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: CODECABIN_ WP Live Chat Support 8.0.07. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/CodeCabin/wp-live-chat-support/blob/master/readme.txt
• https://github.com/RiieCco/write-ups/tree/master/CVE-2018-12426
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9697
• https://github.com/CodeCabin/wp-live-chat-support/blob/master/readme.txt
• https://github.com/RiieCco/write-ups/tree/master/CVE-2018-12426
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9697

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