Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder, CVE-2023-0159

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2023-0159
Home page URL: Security reports for Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder
Application: Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder
Published on: Feb 13, 2023
Research Description: The Extensive VC Addons for WPBakery page builder WordPress plugin before 1.9.1 does not validate a parameter passed to the php extract function when loading templates, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to override the template path to read arbitrary files from the hosts file system. This may be escalated to RCE using PHP filter chains.
Affected versions: max 1.9.1.
Status: vulnerable