WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Advance Guest Post <= 1.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via featured_action

Description

The plugin does not properly restrict or validate file uploads, authorizing an upload action with a nonce exposed to every front-end visitor and checking only a file's leading bytes, allowing unauthenticated users to upload arbitrary PHP files and execute code remotely.

Successful exploitation additionally requires the target to run PHP 7.x; on PHP 8.0 and later the vulnerable code path raises a fatal error before the file is written.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

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Original Researcher
Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala
Submitter
Muni Nitish Kumar Yaddala
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-11-11 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-11-11 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-11-11 (about 1 day ago)

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