PT-2014-2417 · WordPress · Vitamin Plugin

Seo Peter · Published 2014-07-31 · Updated 2014-08-01 · CVE-2012-6651

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 Vitamin plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.1.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files due to multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities. This can be achieved by including a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter to specific API endpoints, such as "add headers.php" or "minify.php".

Recommendations For Vitamin plugin for WordPress versions prior to 1.1.0, update to version 1.1.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6651

Affected Products

Vitamin Plugin

References · 7

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/582232 · Exploit
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/vitamin/changelog · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6651 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6651 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/54856 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/28/3 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/24/6 · Note