CVE-2026-9227

Description

The GutenBee – Gutenberg Blocks plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload in all versions up to, and including, 2.20.1 via the gutenbee_file_and_ext_json function. This is due to a flawed strpos() substring check that only verifies whether the filename contains the string '.json' rather than confirming the filename ends with a .json extension, allowing double-extension filenames like shell.json.php to bypass validation. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to upload files that may be executable, which makes remote code execution possible.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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References

• https://github.com/cssigniter/gutenbee/commit/bde934cdecf67a4de1d6548cc1fc6c59bc6690e5
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gutenbee/tags/2.20.0/gutenbee.php#L570
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gutenbee/tags/2.20.0/gutenbee.php#L571
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gutenbee/tags/2.20.0/gutenbee.php#L579
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gutenbee/tags/2.20.1/gutenbee.php#L570
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gutenbee/tags/2.20.1/gutenbee.php#L571
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gutenbee/tags/2.20.1/gutenbee.php#L579
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3543574%40gutenbee&new=3543574%40gutenbee&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d20e8c9-975d-4e8c-8bea-50935853c7d4?source=cve

CWEs

CWE-434