The WP-Optimize – Cache, Compress images, Minify & Clean database to boost page speed & performance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the unscheduledoriginalfiledeletion function in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.2 This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php). This is possible because 'original-file' is a public (non-protected) meta key — it does not begin with an underscore — allowing Authors to freely create or modify it on their own attachment posts via the standard Edit Media form or the REST API.

The WP-Optimize plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of functionality due to missing capability checks in the receiveheartbeat() function in includes/class-wp-optimize-heartbeat.php in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0. This is due to the Heartbeat handler directly invoking UpdraftSmushManagerCommands methods without verifying user capabilities, nonce tokens, or the allowed commands whitelist that the normal AJAX handler (updraftsmushajax) enforces. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to invoke admin-only Smush operations including reading log files (getsmushlogs), deleting all backup images (cleanallbackupimages), triggering bulk image processing (processbulksmush), and modifying Smush options (updatesmushoptions).