PT-2014-6220 · WordPress · Wp-Cross-Rss

Anant Shrivastava · Published 2014-07-11 · Updated 2014-07-14 · CVE-2014-4941

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 wp-cross-rss plugin version 1.7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by providing a full pathname in the rss parameter to the "proxy.php" endpoint.

Recommendations For wp-cross-rss plugin version 1.7, consider disabling access to the "proxy.php" endpoint until a patch is available, or restrict the rss parameter to prevent full pathname traversal.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-4941

Affected Products

Wp-Cross-Rss

References · 3

• 🔥 http://codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-cross-rss-local-file-inclusion · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4941 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4941 · Note