Social Web Suite โ€“ Social Media Auto Post, Social Media Auto Publish <= 4.1.11 - Directory Traversal to Arbitrary File Download

7.5
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2024-8352
CVSS 7.5 (High)
Publicly Published October 2, 2024
Last Updated October 3, 2024
Researcher Thanh Nam Tran

Description

The Social Web Suite โ€“ Social Media Auto Post, Social Media Auto Publish plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.11 via the download_log function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

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Vulnerability Details for Social Web Suite โ€“ Social Media Auto Post, Social Media Auto Publish

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug social-web-suite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 4.1.12, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 4.1.11
Patched Version
  • 4.1.12

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