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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

WordPress Plugin Custom Content Type Manager Backdoor (0.9.8.8)

Description

WordPress Plugin Custom Content Type Manager contains a backdoor. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands in the context of the application. Successful attacks will compromise the affected application and possibly the webserver or computer. WordPress Plugin Custom Content Type Manager versions 0.9.8.7 and 0.9.8.8 are the only one affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 0.9.8.9 or latest

References

https://blog.sucuri.net/2016/03/when-wordpress-plugin-goes-bad.html

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/version-0989-is-safe

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/vulnerability-on-auto-updatephp

https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/changelog/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-95 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update

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