Vigil@nce - WordPress wp-source-control: directory traversal in downloadfiles/download.php
September 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories in downloadfiles/download.php
of WordPress wp-source-control, in order to read a file outside
the service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 19/08/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The wp-source-control 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 in
downloadfiles/download.php of WordPress wp-source-control, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
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