Vigil@nce - WordPress Download Manager: directory traversal
November 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress Download
Manager, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 27/10/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Download Manager 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
Download Manager, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Download-Manager-directory-traversal-15543