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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:41:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: henri@...v.fi
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: WordPress plugin wysija-newsletters remote file upload

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> https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters/changelog/
> 2.6.7 - 2014-07-01
> Fixed security issue reported by Sucuri
> http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/remote-file-upload-vulnerability-on-mailpoet-wysija-newsletters.html

> the developers assumed that WordPress's "admin_init" hooks were only
> called when an administrator user visited a page inside /wp-admin/.

> It is a easy mistake to make and they used that hook (admin_init) to
> verify if a specific user was allowed to upload files.

Use CVE-2014-4725.


> https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters/changelog/
> 2.6.8 - 2014-07-04
> Fixed security issue reported by Dominic

This seems to be an unspecified vulnerability with a different
discoverer. Use CVE-2014-4726.


> http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/remote-file-upload-vulnerability-on-mailpoet-wysija-newsletters.html

> WordPress's "admin_init" hooks

> any call to /wp-admin/admin-post.php also executes this hook without
> requiring the user to be authenticated

As far as we can tell, this is intentional behavior in WordPress, and
is not a WordPress implementation error or vulnerability. There is no
CVE ID for this WordPress behavior.

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