Advanced File Manager <= 5.2.4 - Sensitive Information Exposure via Directory Listing

Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information
CVE CVE-2024-5598
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published June 28, 2024
Last Updated June 29, 2024
Researcher emad
Description

The Advanced File Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.4 via the 'fma_local_file_system' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including backups or other sensitive information if the files have been moved to the built-in Trash folder.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug file-manager-advanced (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 5.2.4
Patched Version
  • 5.2.5
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