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
References
Classification
Type
TRAVERSAL
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS
Miscellaneous
Original Researcher
Wilfried Becard (Synacktiv.com)
Verified
Yes
WPVDB ID
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)