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Vigil@nce - WordPress candidate-application-form: directory traversal
September 2015 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : http://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress
candidate-application-form, in order to read a file outside the
service root path.
– Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Creation date: 16/07/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The candidate-application-form 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
candidate-application-form, in order to read a file outside the
service root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-candidate-application-form-directory-traversal-17430
