Vigil@nce - WordPress LineNity: directory traversal

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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress LineNity, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.

– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 14/04/2014

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The LineNity theme 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
LineNity, in order to read a file outside the service root path.

ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN

http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-LineNity-directory-traversal-14593

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