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Vigil@nce - WordPress Ad Widget: directory traversal
June 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress Ad Widget, in
order to read a file outside the service root path.
– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 07/04/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Ad Widget 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 Ad
Widget, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Ad-Widget-directory-traversal-22366
