Description
The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.
Published: 2021-08-23
Score: 4.9 Medium
EPSS: 1.0% Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-11461 The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.
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Aceide Project Aceide
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:35:20.123Z

Reserved: 2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-24549

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-08-23T12:15:09.567

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:53:16.870

Link: CVE-2021-24549

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