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Vigil@nce - WordPress N-Media Website Contact Form with File Upload: directory traversal
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress N-Media Website
Contact Form with File Upload, in order to read a file outside the
service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 03/06/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The N-Media Website Contact Form with File Upload 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
N-Media Website Contact Form with File Upload, in order to read a
file outside the service root path.
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