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WP Symposium < 11.12.24 — Arbitrary File Upload

CVE-2011-5051Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <11.12.24Update to 11.12.24 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
High8.8
CVSS
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-434 Arbitrary File Upload
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP Symposium wp-symposium

  1. Affected< 11.12.24
  2. Patched in11.12.24

Update to 11.12.24 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 11.12.24. Version 11.12.24 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Symposium.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 11.12.24, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP Symposium to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin before 11.12.24 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension using (1) uploadify/upload_admin_avatar.php or (2) uploadify/upload_profile_avatar.php, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory inside the webroot.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in WP Symposium

All 12
More vulnerabilities in WP Symposium
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤15.8.1Update to 15.9
CVE-2015-9414
High7.2Blind SQL Injection
<15.8Update to 15.8
—
Critical9.8Unauthenticated SQL Injection
<15.8Update to 15.8
CVE-2015-6522
Medium5.3SQL Injection
<15.4Update to 15.4
CVE-2015-3325
Critical9.8Arbitrary File Upload
≤14.11Update to 15.1
CVE-2014-10021

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 8.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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