AceIDE <= 2.6.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Read

4.9
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2021-24549
CVSS 4.9 (Medium)
Publicly Published July 24, 2021
Last Updated August 29, 2022
Researcher Shreya Pohekar

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.

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Vulnerability Details for AceIDE

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug aceide (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organizations risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.2

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