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$601 Bounty Awarded for Interesting Cross-Site Request Forgery to Local JS File Inclusion Vulnerability Patched in File Manager WordPress Plugin

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On February 15th, 2024, during our second Bug Bounty Extravaganza, we received a submission for a Cross-Site Request Forgery to Local JS File Inclusion vulnerability in File Manager, a WordPress plugin with more than 1,000,000+ active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) via a forged request, provided an attacker can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.