CVE-2015-1000001

Fast Image Adder < 1.2 - Arbitrary File Upload

2017-02-19 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.2
Affected Plugin: Fast Image Adder
Affected Version: <= 1.1
CVSS: 9.8Critical
Weakness type: CWE-434 · Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
CVE: CVE-2015-1000001

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At a glance

CVE-2015-1000001 is a critical-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in the Fast Image Adder WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.1. It carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2017, reported by Larry W. Cashdollar.

Vulnerability Overview

Remote file upload vulnerability in fast-image-adder v1.1 Wordpress plugin

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Reaching this weakness in Fast Image Adder <= 1.1 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. An unrestricted file upload lets a caller store a file whose type or destination the application does not properly constrain.

If an uploaded file lands anywhere the server will execute, the flaw becomes remote code execution and the site should be treated as fully compromised. For Fast Image Adder the fix is 1.2: builds <= 1.1 are affected, anything from 1.2 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Fast Image Adder: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Fast Image Adder 1.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1000001 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a330f907-37d5-484c-94c5-b8d191796cd5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1000001

CVSS Vector

9.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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