Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Garden Gnome Package Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-12854

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Garden Gnome Package
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 January 2025

What is CVE-2024-12854?

The Garden Gnome Package plugin for WordPress suffers from a critical vulnerability due to inadequate file type validation when processing 'ggpkg' files. This issue, present in all versions up to 2.3.0, allows authenticated users with Author-level privileges and above to upload malicious files. Such uploads can potentially lead to remote code execution on the server hosting the affected WordPress site.

Affected Version(s)

Garden Gnome Package * <= 2.3.0

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lucio Sá
.
The Cyber Security Vulnerability Database.