PT-2014-8737 · WordPress · Paid Memberships Pro

Published 2014-11-28 · Updated 2021-03-23 · CVE-2014-8801

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 Paid Memberships Pro plugin versions prior to 1.7.15

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the QUERY STRING in a getfile action to "wp-admin/admin-ajax.php". This is a directory traversal vulnerability in the services/getfile.php file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.7.15, update to version 1.7.15 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" endpoint for the getfile action to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8801

Affected Products

Paid Memberships Pro

References · 11

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35303 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129189/Paid-Memberships-Pro-1.7.14.2-Path-Traversal.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/35303 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8801 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98805 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8801 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/71293 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/paid-memberships-pro/changelog · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/11801 · Telegram Post
• http://security.szurek.pl/paid-memberships-pro-17142-path-traversal.html · Note
• http://paidmembershipspro.com/2014/11/critical-security-update-pmpro-v1-7-15 · Note