CVE-2021-24179

Business Directory Plugin < 5.11 - Arbitrary File Upload to RCE

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11 suffered from a Cross-Site Request Forgery issue, allowing an attacker to make a logged in administrator import files. As the plugin also did not validate uploaded files, it could lead to RCE.

El plugin Business Directory Plugin Easy Listing Directories para WordPress versiones anteriores a 5.11, sufría un problema de tipo Cross-Site Request Forgery, permitiendo a un atacante hacer que un administrador iniciara sesión en la importación de archivos. Como el plugin tampoco validó los archivos cargados, podría conllevar a RCE

*Credits: 0xB9

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-01-14 CVE Reserved
2021-04-11 CVE Published
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
2024-08-03 First Exploit
2025-01-20 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c0a5cdde-732a-432a-86c2-776df5d130a7	2024-08-03

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Strategy11 Search vendor "Strategy11"		Business Directory Plugin - Easy Listing Directories Search vendor "Strategy11" for product "Business Directory Plugin - Easy Listing Directories"				< 5.11 Search vendor "Strategy11" for product "Business Directory Plugin - Easy Listing Directories" and version " < 5.11"		wordpress		Affected