User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin <= 2.4.3 - Path Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2022-0779
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published May 16, 2022
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Julien Ahrens
Description

The User Meta WordPress plugin before 2.4.4 does not validate the filepath parameter of its um_show_uploaded_file AJAX action, which could allow low privileged users such as subscriber to enumerate the local files on the web server via path traversal payloads

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug user-meta (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.4.4
Patched Version
  • 2.4.4
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