AceIDE <= 2.6.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Arbitrary File Read

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2021-24549
CVSS Medium (4.9)
Publicly Published July 24, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Shreya Pohekar
Description

The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug aceide (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.2
Patched Version
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