WP Ultimate Exporter <= 2.9.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Remote Code Execution
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.9.2
- Affected Plugin
- Export All Posts, Products, Orders & Users | WP Ultimate Exporter | WordPress CSV Export
- Affected Version
<= 2.9.1- CVSS
- 4.1Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
- CVE
CVE-2024-56278
At a glance
CVE-2024-56278 is a medium-severity Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') vulnerability in the Export All Posts, Products, Orders & Users WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.9.1. It carries a CVSS score of 4.1 (reachable over the network). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Admin level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.9.2; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2025, reported by Webula.
Vulnerability Overview
The Export All Posts, Products, Orders, Refunds & Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to execute code on the server.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Reaching this weakness in Export All Posts, Products, Orders & Users <= 2.9.1 takes an account at Admin level or above. Code injection means input from a request reaches a language construct that evaluates code, so the attacker's text is executed rather than treated as data.
The injected code runs with the web server's privileges, giving the attacker the same access to the database and filesystem as WordPress itself. For Export All Posts, Products, Orders & Users the fix is 2.9.2: builds <= 2.9.1 are affected, anything from 2.9.2 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.9.2, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Admin 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: Export All Posts, Products, Orders & Users 2.9.2 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
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