Check Point Advisories

WordPress Symposium Plugin Unauthenticated Shell Upload (CVE-2014-10021)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-2469
Date Published: 31 Dec 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 19 April, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2014-10021
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? WordPress Symposium Plugin 14.11
Vulnerability Description WordPress Symposium plugin allows user to upload files without proper validation of file type. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the WordPress Symposium Plugin Unauthenticated Shell Upload protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  WordPress Enforcement Protection.
Attack Information:  WordPress Symposium Plugin Unauthenticated Shell Upload

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