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CVE-2024-4389: Slider & Popup Builder by Depicter – Add Image Slider, Carousel Slider, Exit Intent Popup, Popup Modal, Coupon Popup, Post Slider Carousel <= 3.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Upload

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

The Slider and Carousel slider by Depicter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the uploadFile function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or higher, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Affected products

• averta Add Image Slider: through 3.11
• averta Carousel Slider: through 3.1.1
• averta Coupon Popup: through 3.1..1
• averta Exit Intent Popup: through 3.1.1
• averta Popup Modal: through 3.1.1
• averta Post Slider Carousel: through 3.1.1
• averta Slider And Popup Builder By Depicter: through 3.11

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/depicter/trunk/app/src/WordPress/FileUploaderService.php#L28
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3108589/depicter/trunk/app/src/WordPress/FileUploaderService.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/81f025da-c28c-4a80-8b4f-27dae07b2b04?source=cve

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