CVE-2011-5051

HIGH 7.5CVE-2011-5051 · Published 04/01/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-5051 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting wp symposium (wpsymposium).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.2%, higher than 90.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wp symposium wpsymposium	`= 11.10.1= 11.10.15= 11.10.22= 11.10.29= 11.10.8= 11.11.12= 11.11.19= 11.11.26= 11.11.5= 11.12.03= 11.9.10= 11.9.14= 11.9.17= 11.9.24≤ 11.12.08`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin before 11.12.24 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension using (1) uploadify/upload_admin_avatar.php or (2) uploadify/upload_profile_avatar.php, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory inside the webroot.

References

osvdb.org/78041
osvdb.org/78042
secunia.com/advisories/46097 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/secunia_research/2011-91 · Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72012
wpsymposium-trac.sourcerepo.com/wpsymposium_trac/ticket/265

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