String Locator <= 2.4.2 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Read

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2022-0493
CVSS Medium (4.9)
Publicly Published March 1, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher qerogram
Description

The String locator WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 does not properly validate the path of the files to be searched, allowing high privilege users such as admin to query arbitrary files on the web server via a path traversal vector. Furthermore, due to a flaw in the search, allowing a pattern to be provided, which will be used to output the relevant matches from the matching file, all content of the file can be disclosed.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug string-locator (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.5.0
Patched Version
  • 2.5.0
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