Vigil@nce - WordPress IMDb Profile Widget: directory traversal
May 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress IMDb Profile
Widget, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 29/03/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The IMDb Profile Widget 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 IMDb
Profile Widget, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-IMDb-Profile-Widget-directory-traversal-19256