Vigil@nce - WordPress Really Simple Guest Post: directory traversal
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress Really Simple
Guest Post, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 05/06/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Really Simple Guest Post 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 Really
Simple Guest Post, in order to read a file outside the service
root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Really-Simple-Guest-Post-directory-traversal-17073