CVE-2012-10019 (GCVE-0-2012-10019)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-19 09:23
Modified
2025-07-21 16:25
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-434 - Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
Summary
The Front End Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation via the upload.php file in versions before 2.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected sites server which may make remote code execution possible.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
scribu Front-end Editor Version: *   ≤
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