CVE-2019-1000031 — A disk space or quota exhaustion issue exists in article2pdf_getfile

A disk space or quota exhaustion issue exists in article2pdf_getfile.php in the article2pdf Wordpress plugin 0.24, 0.25, 0.26, 0.27. Visiting PDF generation link but not following the redirect will leave behind a PDF file on disk which will never be deleted by the plug-in.

01What is this vulnerability?

A disk space or quota exhaustion issue exists in article2pdf_getfile.php in the article2pdf Wordpress plugin 0.24, 0.25, 0.26, 0.27. Visiting PDF generation link but not following the redirect will leave behind a PDF file on disk which will never be deleted by the plug-in.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
article2pdf	article2pdf Wordpress plug	in — 0.24, 0.25, 0.26, 0.27

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-03-27T17:55:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T03:00:19.265Z

09References

• seclists.org — https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/49
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152236/WordPress-article2pdf-0.24-DoS-File-…
• wpvulndb.com — https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9246