CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-16618

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2026-08-04 Modified 2026-08-26 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2026-08-04
Last modified
2026-08-26
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-434

Description

The Improve SEO WordPress plugin through 2.0.11 does not properly validate uploaded files, checking only the file content type while writing the file with the attacker-supplied extension into a publicly accessible directory, allowing unauthenticated users to upload executable PHP files and achieve remote code execution.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type weakness

References