CVE-2024-13365

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2024-13365 · Published 12/02/2025 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2024-13365 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting security & malware scan (cleantalk).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.150 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
security & malware scan cleantalk	`< 2.150`	`2.150`

Description

The Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to the plugin uploading and extracting .zip archives when scanning them for malware through the checkUploadedArchive() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.149. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3229205/security-malware-firewall · Patch
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fa30fa2-6c42-4e5f-a0b5-8711ce5d8121 · Third Party Advisory

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