CVE-2019-8942
HIGH8.8EPSS 93.4%wordpress - security update
Published: 2/20/2019Modified: 5/27/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2019-8942
Description
WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote code execution because an _wp_attached_file Post Meta entry can be changed to an arbitrary string, such as one ending with a .jpg?file.php substring. An attacker with author privileges can execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted image containing PHP code in the Exif metadata. Exploitation can leverage CVE-2019-8943.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 5.0.1+dfsg1-1
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 4.1.26+dfsg-1+deb8u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |