PT-2014-6216 · WordPress · Bookx Plugin

Anant Shrivastava + 1 · Published 2014-07-11 · Updated 2014-07-14 · CVE-2014-4937

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 BookX plugin version 1.7 for WordPress

Description A directory traversal issue exists, allowing remote attackers to read arbitrary files by using a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter.

Recommendations For BookX plugin version 1.7, update to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent directory traversal attacks.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-4937

Affected Products

Bookx Plugin

References · 4

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39251 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-bookx-local-file-inclusion · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4937 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4937 · Note