CVE-2022-0493
The String locator WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 does not properly validate the path of the files to be searched, allowing high privilege users such as admin to query arbitrary files on the web server via a path traversal vector.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The String locator WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 does not properly validate the path of the files to be searched, allowing high privilege users such as admin to query arbitrary files on the web server via a path traversal vector. Furthermore, due to a flaw in the search, allowing a pattern to be provided, which will be used to output the relevant matches from the matching file, all content of the file can be disclosed.
- CVSS 3.1
- 4.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.38% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- string locator project/string locator
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2685592Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/21e2e5fc-03d2-4791-beef-07af6bf985edExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2685592Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/21e2e5fc-03d2-4791-beef-07af6bf985edExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.