Vigil@nce - WordPress History Collection: directory traversal of download.php
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories in download.php of WordPress
History Collection, in order to read a file outside the service
root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 12/06/2015.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The History Collection 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 in download.php of
WordPress History Collection, in order to read a file outside the
service root path.
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