Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk, CVE-2024-13365

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-13365
Home page URL: Security reports for Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk
Application: Security & Malware scan by CleanTalk
Published on: Feb 12, 2025
Research 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.
Affected versions: max 2.150.
Status: vulnerable