{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-8942 exists.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2019-8942 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Feb 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2019-8942 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2019-8942 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Feb 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2019-8942 exists.\n\nAffected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-8942/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-8942/index.md)","id":"CVE-2019-8942","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-8942/index.md","name":"CVE-2019-8942","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2019-8942","GHSA-rwhm-6hw4-9fgg","UBUNTU-CVE-2019-8942"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress core","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An attacker with author privileges can execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted image with PHP code in Exif metadata, exploiting a path traversal flaw in file handling.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"file_upload"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"wordpress","vendor":"wordpress"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-434","name":"Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type"}],"description":"WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1 allows remote code execution because an _wp_attached_file Post Meta entry can be changed to an arbitrary string, such as one ending with a .jpg?file.php substring. An attacker with author privileges can execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted image containing PHP code in the Exif metadata. Exploitation can leverage CVE-2019-8943.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":2,"first_seen":"2019-02-19","github_poc":5,"max_poc_stars":74,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2019-02-25T06:38:15Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/brianwrf/WordPress_4.9.8_RCE_POC","stars":74,"title":"A simple PoC for WordPress RCE (author priviledge), refer to CVE-2019-8942 and CVE-2019-8943."},{"date":"2019-05-02T08:41:11Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/synacktiv/CVE-2019-8942","stars":4,"title":"WordPress crop-image exploitation"},{"date":"2022-05-31T03:28:22Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/tuannq2299/CVE-2019-8942","stars":1,"title":null},{"date":"2026-05-22T16:36:35Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/SpeatX/WordPress-RCE-CVE-2019-8942","stars":1,"title":"Python exploit toolkit for WordPress Crop Image RCE — CVE-2019-8942 \u0026 CVE-2019-8943"},{"date":"2019-02-19","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/multi/http/wp_crop_rce","stars":null,"title":"WordPress Crop-image Shell Upload"},{"date":"2019-03-01","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"46511","stars":null,"title":"WordPress Core 5.0 - Remote Code Execution"},{"date":"2019-04-05","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"46662","stars":null,"title":"WordPress Core 5.0.0 - Crop-image Shell Upload (Metasploit)"},{"date":"2021-05-05T16:23:03Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/synod2/WP_CROP_RCE","stars":0,"title":"cve-2019-8942, cve-2019-8943"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"File upload in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-8942","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","wordpress:wordpress"],"type":"file_upload","year":"2019"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-8943"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-8939"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2019-02-20","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"An attacker with author privileges can execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted image with PHP code in Exif metadata, exploiting a path traversal flaw in file handling.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-8942/"}