Vigil@nce - WordPress epic: directory traversal of download.php
September 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories in download.php of WordPress
epic, 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 epic 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 download.php of
WordPress epic, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-epic-directory-traversal-of-download-php-15286