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article2pdf <= 0.27 — Denial of Service

CVE-2019-1000031Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤0.27No patch available

What to do until a fix ships
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Severity
High7.5
CVSS
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:N Integrity
None
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

article2pdf article2pdf

  1. Affected≤ 0.27
  2. PatchedNo fix yet

No patched version available.

You are affected if you run ≤ 0.27. No fixed version has been released.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under article2pdf.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch article2pdf to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Christian Lerrahn.

A disk space or quota exhaustion issue exists in article2pdf_getfile.php in the article2pdf Wordpress plugin 0.24, 0.25, 0.26, 0.27. Visiting PDF generation link but not following the redirect will leave behind a PDF file on disk which will never be deleted by the plug-in.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in article2pdf

All 2
More vulnerabilities in article2pdf
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Critical9.10.27 - Information Disclosure
≤0.27No patch available
CVE-2019-1010257

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. 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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