A Page Flip Book < 3.0 - Directory Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2012-6652
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published July 10, 2012
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Charlie Eriksen
Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in pageflipbook.php script from index.php in Page Flip Book plugin for WordPress (wppageflip) allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the pageflipbook_language parameter.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wppageflip (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0
Patched Version
  • 3.0
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