CVE-2024-6823

Summary

CVE-2024-6823 is a vulnerability affecting the Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 3.18, allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access or higher to upload arbitrary files due to missing file type validation. The vulnerability lies within the mla-inline-edit-upload-scripts AJAX action. Successful exploitation could result in remote code execution, posing a significant security risk. WordPress users are strongly urged to update to the latest version of the plugin to mitigate this threat.

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