Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress <= 4.3000000023 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Upload
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 4.3000000024
- Affected Plugin
- Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress
- Affected Version
<= 4.3000000023- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-434 · Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
- CVE
CVE-2024-5630
At a glance
CVE-2024-5630 is a high-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in the Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 4.3000000023. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Author level or above. The issue is fixed in version 4.3000000024; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2024, reported by Dmitrii Ignatyev.
Vulnerability Overview
The Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads through insecure file uploads in a zip archive in all versions up to, and including, 4.3000000023. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload zip files containing phar files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible. CVE-2024-0757 is likely a duplicate of this issue.
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 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 Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress <= 4.3000000023 takes an account at Author level or above. 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 Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress the fix is 4.3000000024: builds <= 4.3000000023 are affected, anything from 4.3000000024 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 4.3000000024, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Author access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: 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: Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress 4.3000000024 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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External References
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