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$2,751 Bounty Awarded for Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in Avada WordPress Theme

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On February 6th, 2024, during our second Bug Bounty Extravaganza, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Avada, a WordPress theme with more than 945,000 sales, though we expect the software is running on over one million sites. This vulnerability can be leveraged by authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions and above to upload arbitrary files onto the server and achieve remote code execution.