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Ad Inserter <= 2.4.19 - Authenticated Path Traversal

Description

Edit (WPScanTeam):

Even though the original advisory mentions that it only affect accounts with the administrator privilege, subscriber accounts and above can exploit the issue, as the nonce can be retrieved when submitting a request with a specific cookie, as described at https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/07/critical-vulnerability-patched-in-ad-inserter-plugin/

Affects Plugins

ad-inserter
Fixed in version 2.4.20

References

CVE
CVE-2019-15323
URL
https://www.synacktiv.com/ressources/advisories/WordPress_ad_inserter.pdf

Classification

Type

TRAVERSAL

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-22

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Wilfried Becard (Synacktiv.com)

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
8ab17d1a-4587-4fbd-a186-f517aa2a20b1

Timeline

Publicly Published

2019-07-12 (about 3 years ago)

Added

2019-07-12 (about 3 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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