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Vigil@nce - WordPress BookX: directory traversal
July 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress BookX, in order
to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 15/07/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The BookX plugin can be installed on WordPress.
However, user’s data are directly inserted in an access path.
Sequences such as "/.." can thus be used to go in the upper
directory.
An attacker can therefore traverse directories of WordPress BookX,
in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-BookX-directory-traversal-15038
