Media File Manager <= 1.4.2 - Directory Traversal to Arbitrary File Relocation

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2018-19042
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published May 11, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Pasquale Turi
Description

The Media File Manager plugin 1.4.2 for WordPress allows arbitrary file movement via a ../ directory traversal in the dir_from and dir_to parameters of an mrelocator_move action to the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php URI.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug media-file-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.2
Patched Version
  • 1.4.3
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