Vigil@nce - WordPress Mysitemyway: directory traversal of _mysite_download_skin
February 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories in _mysite_download_skin of
WordPress Mysitemyway, in order to read a file outside the service
root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 07/02/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Mysitemyway themes 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
_mysite_download_skin of WordPress Mysitemyway, in order to read a
file outside the service root path.
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