Vulnerability CVE-2014-4725
Published: 2014-07-27   Modified: 2014-07-28

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/.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Wordpress MailPoet (wysija-newsletters) Unauthenticated File Upload
Christian Mehlma...
07.07.2014

Type:

CWE-287

 (Improper Authentication)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Mailpoet -> Mailpoet newsletters 

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