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CVE-2026-109218

Critical
9.8 CVSS v3.1
Published
Oct 28, 2026
Updated
Oct 28, 2026
Vendor
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Affected versions
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Weakness
CWE-434

Summary

The Contact Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.2 via the add_message function. This is due to an incomplete extension blacklist that fails to detect dangerous extensions when a trailing dot causes the extension-derivation routine to return an empty string, which sanitize_file_name() then silently removes before the file is written to disk. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload files that may be executable, which makes remote code execution possible. Successful code execution additionally requires the server to use Apache with libapache2-mod-php (which maps .phar to PHP by default) and the attacker to retrieve the uploaded file within the brief window before it is removed by unlink() at end of request.

Severity

Critical (9.8)

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Not listed by the source yet.

Exploitation status

Unknown

Technical details

Technical analysis has not been written for this record yet.

Mitigation & remediation

Follow the vendor advisory linked below for patches and workarounds.

References

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