Vigil@nce - WordPress Font: directory traversal
December 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress Font, in order
to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 13/10/2015.
Revision date: 13/10/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Font 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 Font,
in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Font-directory-traversal-18079