CVE-2011-5051

high

Published 2012-01-04 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin before 11.12.24 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension using (1) uploadify/upload_admin_avatar.php or (2) uploadify/upload_profile_avatar.php, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory inside the webroot.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`{"endIncluding":"11.12.08"}`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.9.10`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.9.14`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.9.17`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.9.24`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.10.1`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.10.8`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.10.15`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.10.22`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.10.29`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.11.5`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.11.12`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.11.19`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.11.26`
wpsymposium	wp_symposium	`11.12.03`
wordpress	wordpress

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.