CVE-2020-10568 — The sitepress-multilingual-cms (WPML) plugin before 4

The sitepress-multilingual-cms (WPML) plugin before 4.3.7-b.2 for WordPress has CSRF due to a loose comparison. This leads to remote code execution in includes/class-wp-installer.php via a series of requests that leverage unintended comparisons of integers to strings.

01What is this vulnerability?

The sitepress-multilingual-cms (WPML) plugin before 4.3.7-b.2 for WordPress has CSRF due to a loose comparison. This leads to remote code execution in includes/class-wp-installer.php via a series of requests that leverage unintended comparisons of integers to strings.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

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: 2020-03-14T13:50:04.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:06:09.551Z

09References

• wpvulndb.com — https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/10131
• medium.com — https://medium.com/%40arall/sitepress-multilingual-cms-wplugin-wpml-4-3-7-b-2-9c…