Vigil@nce - WordPress Download Monitor: directory traversal
March 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress Download
Monitor, in order to list a directory outside the service root
path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 09/03/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Download Monitor 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 Monitor, in order to list a directory outside the service
root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Download-Monitor-directory-traversal-16345