CVE-2012-5318: Kishore Asokan Kish Guest Posting Plugin

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in uploadify/scripts/uploadify.php in the Kish Guest Posting plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with a double extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the directory specified by the folder parameter. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1125.

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Published 2012-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.