Vigil@nce - WordPress Paypal Currency Converter Basic For Woocommerce: directory traversal
August 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of WordPress Paypal Currency
Converter Basic For Woocommerce, 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 Paypal Currency Converter Basic For Woocommerce 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 Paypal
Currency Converter Basic For Woocommerce, in order to read a file
outside the service root path.
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