Arbitrary DLL Load in Kingsoft WPS Office promecefpluginhost.exe
CVE-2024-7263 is an improper path validation vulnerability in promecefpluginhost.exe in Kingsoft WPS Office for Windows. Affected versions are 12.2.0.13110 through 12.2.0.17115, exclusive. According to the provided content, the issue allows an attacker to cause WPS Office to load an arbitrary Windows library because a parameter was not properly sanitized. The content further states that the patch released in version 12.1.0.17119 for CVE-2024-7262 was insufficiently restrictive, and that another parameter remained improperly validated, enabling arbitrary Windows library execution. The associated detection content characterizes exploitation as a DLL hijack involving the ksoqing custom protocol handler and remote library loading by promecefpluginhost.exe.
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A WPS Office vulnerability that can be exploited via DLL hijacking (abusing the ksoqing custom protocol handler) leading to loading of a remote/malicious library by a WPS Office component.
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