PT-2014-2288 · Zingiri · Zingiri Forum

Published 2014-04-04 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-4920

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Zingiri Forum plugin versions prior to 1.4.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the zing forum output function. This is achieved by including a .. (dot dot) in the url parameter to "index.php".

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.4.4, update to version 1.4.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "index.php" endpoint to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4920

Affected Products

Zingiri Forum

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4920 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50833 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/zingiri-forum/changelog · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/89069 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4920 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81156 · Note