Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk <= 6.0.5 - Unauthenticated Code Injection via 'path' Parameter

The Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Code Injection via the 'path' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 6.0.5 due to the use of dynamic function invocation on an attacker-controlled value with insufficient validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke arbitrary parameterless PHP functions, which can be used to disrupt site functionality or expose sensitive information. The required nonce is publicly emitted via wp_localize_script whenever the plugin's [emd_form] shortcode is rendered on any public-facing page, making the endpoint reachable by unauthenticated visitors without any prior authentication or privilege.

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: 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: Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk 6.0.6 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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