# CVE-2024-5630: Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress < 4.3000000024 - Author+ Arbitrary File Upload

> Authors can upload arbitrary files, including PHP shells, leading to remote code execution on affected WordPress sites.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5m9v-g6cg-987g

## What is CVE-2024-5630?

CVE-2024-5630 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unknown Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress, published on 15 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress plugin before 4.3000000024 does not prevent authors from uploading arbitrary files to the site, which may allow them to upload PHP shells on affected sites.

Weakness: CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5630?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Elearningfreak Insert or Embed Articulate Content.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-5630?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5630 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-5630 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-5630 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress

- [CVE-2019-15649](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15649/): File upload in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-50824](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-50824/): Cross-site scripting in Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2019-15648](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15648/): Missing authorization in n/a (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2024-0757](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0757/): Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress <= 4.3000000023 - Author+ Upload to RCE (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-0756](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-0756/): Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress <= 4.3000000023 - Iframe Injection (low 3.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5630 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-5630 is a high-severity vulnerability in Unknown Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress, published on 15 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-5630 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Insert or Embed Articulate Content into WordPress. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5630/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5630/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5630
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5630
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5630

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5630/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.