5 Mar 2018

Vulnerability Details: Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in IP-Logger

One of the things we do to make sure our customers have the best data on vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins is to monitor what look to be hacking attempts on our websites. Through that we recently came across a request for a file, /wp-content/plugins/ip-logger/chart/ofc_upload_image.php, which would be from the plugin IP-Logger. That plugin is no longer in the WordPress Plugin Directory, which could have been due to it being removed for a security issue.

We immediately recognized that file as being one from the library Open Flash Charts, which was discovered to have an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in 2009. In the case of this plugin a new version was never released to fix the issue. [Read more]