Race condition vulnerability in UpdraftPlus plugin for WordPress allows remote PHP code execution

CVE-2017-16871 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The UpdraftPlus plugin through 1.13.12 for WordPress allows remote PHP code execution because the plupload_action function in /wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/admin.php has a race condition before deleting a file associated with the name parameter. NOTE: the vendor reports that this does not cross a privilege boundary

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