The News & Blog Designer Pack – WordPress Blog Plugin — (Blog Post Grid, Blog Post Slider, Blog Post Carousel, Blog Post Ticker, Blog Post Masonry) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 via the bdp_get_more_post function hooked via a nopriv AJAX. This is due to function utilizing an unsafe extract() method to extract values from the POST variable and passing that input to the include() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include arbitrary PHP files and achieve remote code execution. On vulnerable Docker configurations it may be possible for an attacker to create a PHP file and then subsequently include it to achieve RCE.
CVE-2023-5815 is a high severity with CVSS 8.1 Remote Code Execution issue affecting the Plugin Blog Designer Pack – Blog, Post Grid, Post Slider, Post Carousel, Category Post, News. It affects Versions up to 3.4.1 and is fixed in 3.4.2.
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CVE-2023-5815 is tracked for the Plugin Blog Designer Pack – Blog, Post Grid, Post Slider, Post Carousel, Category Post, News as high severity with CVSS 8.1. The affected range is Versions up to 3.4.1. Update Blog Designer Pack – Blog, Post Grid, Post Slider, Post Carousel, Category Post, News to 3.4.2 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
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| Software Type | Plugin |
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| Software Slug |
blog-designer-pack
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2023-5815 |
| Patched Versions |
3.4.2
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 3.4.1
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News & Blog Designer Pack <= 4.0 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion
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