CVE-2012-5318

medium

Published 2012-10-08 · 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

7.8

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php in the Kish Guest Posting plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a double extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the folder parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1125.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18412 webapps php

EgiX · 2012-01-23

WordPress Plugin Kish Guest Posting 1.0 - Arbitrary File Upload

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
kishore_asokan	kish_guest_posting_plugin	`1.2`
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.