Forums < 1.4.4 - Directory Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2012-4920
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published January 9, 2013
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Charlie Eriksen
Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the zing_forum_output function in forum.php in the Zingiri Forum (aka Forums) plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the url parameter to index.php.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug zingiri-forum (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.4
Patched Version
  • 1.4.4
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