CVE-2021-24307 (GCVE-0-2021-24307)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-24 10:58 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:28
VLAI
Title
All in One SEO Pack < 4.1.0.2 - Admin RCE via unserialize
Summary
The All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve Your SEO Rankings before 4.1.0.2 enables authenticated users with "aioseo_tools_settings" privilege (most of the time admin) to execute arbitrary code on the underlying host. Users can restore plugin's configuration by uploading a backup .ini file in the section "Tool > Import/Export". However, the plugin attempts to unserialize values of the .ini file. Moreover, the plugin embeds Monolog library which can be used to craft a gadget chain and thus trigger system command execution.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Assigner
WPScan CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 2120 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Credits
Vincent MICHEL
Show details on NVD website
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