Vigil@nce - WordPress InPost Gallery: directory traversal
December 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress InPost Gallery,
in order to read a file outside the service root path.
– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 21/10/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The InPost Gallery 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 InPost
Gallery, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-InPost-Gallery-directory-traversal-20935