CVE-2020-25213

Description

The File Manager (wp-file-manager) plugin before 6.9 for WordPress allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code because it renames an unsafe example elFinder connector file to have the .php extension. This, for example, allows attackers to run the elFinder upload (or mkfile and put) command to write PHP code into the wp-content/plugins/wp-file-manager/lib/files/ directory. This was exploited in the wild in August and September 2020.

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/one-year-later-what-can-we-learn-from-zerologon

https://www.tenable.com/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-file-manager-wordpress-plugin-exploited-in-the-wild

https://zdnet.com/article/millions-of-wordpress-sites-are-being-probed-attacked-with-recent-plugin-bug/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-manager/#developers

https://wordfence.com/blog/2020/09/700000-wordpress-users-affected-by-zero-day-vulnerability-in-file-manager-plugin/

https://seravo.com/blog/0-day-vulnerability-in-wp-file-manager/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2373068

https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/wordpress-websites-attacked-via-file-manager-plugin-vulnerability-24048.html

https://github.com/w4fz5uck5/wp-file-manager-0day

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171650/WordPress-File-Manager-6.9-Shell-Upload.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160003/WordPress-File-Manager-6.8-Remote-Code-Execution.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3