Vulnerability · Published Sep 3, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-24948

High 7.2

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 13.1% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)13.1%top 3.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The ao_ccss_import AJAX call in Autoptimize Wordpress Plugin 2.7.6 does not ensure that the file provided is a legitimate Zip file, allowing high privilege users to upload arbitrary files, such as PHP, leading to remote command execution.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10372 x_refsource_MISC
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160850/WordPress-Autoptimize-Shell-Upload.html x_refsource_MISC