VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-4725

high
Published 2014-07-27 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

The MailPoet Newsletters (wysija-newsletters) plugin before 2.6.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a crafted theme using wp-admin/admin-post.php and accessing the theme in wp-content/uploads/wysija/themes/mailp/.

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-33991 remote php verified
Metasploit · 2014-07-07

WordPress Plugin MailPoet Newsletters 2.6.8 - 'wysija-newsletters' Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_unix/webapp/wp_wysija_newsletters_upload rank 600
Wordpress MailPoet Newsletters (wysija-newsletters) Unauthenticated File Upload
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters{"endIncluding":"2.6.6"}
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters0.9
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters0.9.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters0.9.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters0.9.6
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.0
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.0.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.1.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.1.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.1.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.1.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters1.1.5
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.5
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.6
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.7
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.8
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.9
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.0.9.5
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.5
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.6
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.7
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.8
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.1.9
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.2.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.2.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.2.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.3.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.3.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.3.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.3.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.3.5
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.4.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.4.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.4.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.4.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.5
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.7
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.8
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.9
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.9.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.9.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.9.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.5.9.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.6
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.6.1
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.6.2
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.6.3
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.6.4
mailpoetmailpoet_newsletters2.6.5

References

CWEs

CWE-287

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

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