Vigil@nce - WordPress NextGEN Gallery: directory traversal
March 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress NextGEN Gallery,
in order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 05/01/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The NextGEN Gallery 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
NextGEN Gallery, in order to read a file outside the service root
path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-NextGEN-Gallery-directory-traversal-18639