PT-2014-6320

CVE-2014-5181

Published

2014-08-06

Updated

2014-08-07

Description by

CVSS 2.0

5.0

Medium

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Last.fm Rotation (lastfm-rotation) plugin version 1.0 for WordPress

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the snode parameter. This is a directory traversal vulnerability in the lastfm-proxy.php file.

Recommendations For version 1.0, consider restricting access to the lastfm-proxy.php file until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the snode parameter in the affected API endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Anant Shrivastava

Anantshri

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (\'Path Traversal\')

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