CVE-2014-8739

Creative Contact Form < 1.0.0 - Arbitrary File Upload

criticalUnrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

9.8

CVSS Score

9.8

CVSS Score

critical

Severity

1.0.0

Patched in

3379d

Time to patch

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in server/php/UploadHandler.php in the jQuery File Upload Plugin 6.4.4 for jQuery, as used in the Creative Solutions Creative Contact Form (formerly Sexy Contact Form) before 1.0.0 for WordPress and before 2.0.1 for Joomla!, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a PHP file with an PHP extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in files/, as exploited in the wild in October 2014.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

High

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<1.0.0

PublishedOctober 23, 2014

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginsexy-contact-form

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/39ced195-63a7-4f50-a4eb-b43d6069f7e1?source=api-prod

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