CVE-2026-109218

Contact Manager <= 9.1.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via Trailing-Dot Filename Blacklist Bypass

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: October 28, 2026 at 06:45 AM UTC
Updated: October 29, 2026 at 02:16 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorContact Manager

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The Contact Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 9.1.2 via the add_message function. This is due to an incomplete extension blacklist that fails to detect dangerous extensions when a trailing dot causes the extension-derivation routine to return an empty string, which sanitize_file_name() then silently removes before the file is written to disk. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to upload files that may be executable, which makes remote code execution possible. Successful code execution additionally requires the server to use Apache with libapache2-mod-php (which maps .phar to PHP by default) and the attacker to retrieve the uploaded file within the brief window before it is removed by unlink() at end of request.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Contact Manager· Kleorwordpress-plugin
90%
All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

9.8CRITICALWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-434

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