Hotel Booking Lite <= 4.8.4 - Insufficient Path Validation to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion and Download

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2023-5991
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published December 1, 2023
Last Updated February 6, 2024
Researcher Krzysztof Zając
Description

The Hotel Booking Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the maybeDownload() function and insufficient path validation in all versions up to 4.8.5 (exclusive). This makes it possible for unauthenticated to retrieve and delete arbitrary files which can be leveraged for remote code execution.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug motopress-hotel-booking-lite (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.8.5
Patched Version
  • 4.8.5
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