Vulnerability · Published Oct 15, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2024-9837AADMY – Add Auto Date Month Year Into Posts <= 2.0.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution
High 7.3
In plain English
A high-severity code injection in AADMY – Add Auto Date Month Year Into Posts from numanrki. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
The The AADMY – Add Auto Date Month Year Into Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.1. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| numanrki | AADMY – Add Auto Date Month Year Into Posts | 0 – through 2.0.1 |
Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fb165cba-34a9-42d9-bfd5-31a290d02311?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-date-year-month/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auto-date-year-month/trunk/auto-date-year-month.php#L218
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167908/