Vigil@nce - WordPress RedSteel: directory traversal
February 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress RedSteel, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 26/01/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The RedSteel 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 of WordPress
RedSteel, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-RedSteel-directory-traversal-16054