WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Ad Inserter <= 2.4.19 - Authenticated Path Traversal

Description

Edit (WPScanTeam):

Even though the original advisory mentions that it only affect accounts with the administrator privilege, subscriber accounts and above can exploit the issue, as the nonce can be retrieved when submitting a request with a specific cookie, as described at https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/07/critical-vulnerability-patched-in-ad-inserter-plugin/

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.4.20

References

Classification

Type
TRAVERSAL
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Wilfried Becard (Synacktiv.com)
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2019-07-12 (about 4 years ago)
Added
2019-07-12 (about 4 years ago)
Last Updated
2020-09-22 (about 3 years ago)

Other