Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the Cms Pack plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
WordPress Cms Pack Plugin TimThumb Arbitrary File Upload
Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46085
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-09-21
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Cms Pack plugin for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a bundled vulnerable version of
TimThumb.
For more information see vulnerability #1 in:
SA45416
The vulnerability is reported in version 1.3. Prior versions may also
be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ben Schmidt
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Ben Schmidt:
http://spareclockcycles.org/2011/09/18/exploitring-the-wordpress-extension-repos/
Cms Pack:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cms-pack/changelog/
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=439015%40cms-pack&old=392679%40cms-pack
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