Security Advisory

CVE-2021-24376

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-06-21 19:18:22
Last updated 2024-08-03 19:28:23
Assigner WPScan
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The Autoptimize WordPress plugin before 2.7.8 attempts to delete malicious files (such as .php) form the uploaded archive via the "Import Settings" feature, after its extraction. However, the extracted folders are not checked and it is possible to upload a zip which contained a directory with PHP file in it and then it is not removed from the disk. It is a bypass of CVE-2020-24948 which allows sending a PHP file via the "Import Settings" functionality to achieve Remote Code Execution.