Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-47642

CVE-2025-47642:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2025-47642 is a critical vulnerability affecting Ajar Productions' Ajar in5 Embed WordPress plugin versions through 3.1.5. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by researcher LVT-tholv2k on March 30, 2025, and was publicly disclosed on May 9, 2025. This security issue is classified as an Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability (CWE-434) that allows attackers to upload a web shell to a web server (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 10.0 (CRITICAL) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requires no privileges or user interaction, and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type) (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows malicious actors to upload any type of file to the affected website, including backdoors which can be executed to gain further access to the website. Due to its critical severity rating and unauthenticated nature, this vulnerability is expected to become mass exploited (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking any attacks until an official fix becomes available. Website owners are advised to implement mitigation measures immediately (Patchstack).

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Source: This report was generated using AI

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