Vigil@nce - WordPress acento: directory traversal of view-pdf.php
September 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories in view-pdf.php of WordPress
acento, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 08/09/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The acento 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 in view-pdf.php of
WordPress acento, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-acento-directory-traversal-of-view-pdf-php-15283