PT-2018-4205 · WordPress · Ajax Pagination (Twitter Style) Plugin

Glyn Wintle · Published 2018-03-19 · Updated 2018-04-18 · CVE-2014-2674

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 Ajax Pagination (twitter Style) plugin version 1.1 for WordPress

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files due to a directory traversal vulnerability. This is achieved by using a .. (dot dot) in the loop parameter in an ajax navigation action to the "wp-admin/admin-ajax.php" endpoint.

Recommendations For Ajax Pagination (twitter Style) plugin version 1.1, consider disabling the ajax navigation action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php until a patch is available. Avoid using the loop parameter in the affected endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-2674

Affected Products

Ajax Pagination (Twitter Style) Plugin

References · 4

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32622 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://security.dxw.com/advisories/end-user-exploitable-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-ajax-pagination-twitter-style-1-1 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2674 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2674 · Note