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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

WP Plugin Contact Form 7 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Vulnerability (CVE-2020-35489)

Description

The contact-form-7 (aka Contact Form 7) plugin before 5.3.2 for WordPress allows Unrestricted File Upload and remote code execution because a filename may contain special characters.

Remediation

References

CVE-2020-35489

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Severity

Critical

Classification

CVE-2020-35489 CWE-434 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Tags

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