A vulnerability has been discovered in the Nmedia MailChimp plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed via the "abs_path" parameter to wp-content/plugins/nmedia-mailchimp-widget/api_mailchimp/postToMailChimp.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external resources.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.1. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 3.2.

Provided and/or discovered by
Charlie Eriksen via Secunia.

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