Aspose Doc Exporter WordPress Plugin < 2.0 Path Traversal via aspose_doc_exporter_download.php
Impact
Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the 'file' parameter set to values like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-23.
Source excerpt · VulnCheckAffected packages
Affected products
Vendor version evidence. Product records are separate from automatic dependency matching.
Aspose · Aspose Doc Exporter
Other versions: unaffected
| Version / range | Source status |
|---|---|
| 1.0 to before 2.0 | affected |
Original source description
Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the 'file' parameter set to values like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-23.
References
- Public exploit reference www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36559
- Public exploit reference packetstorm.news/files/id/131167/
- Security advisory wpscan.com/vulnerability/043aa583-a81d-4565-bf65-83252b8f1f96
- Security advisory github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/aspose-words-file-download.yaml
- Source reference wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-doc-exporter/
- Security advisory www.vulncheck.com/advisories/aspose-doc-exporter-wordpress-plugin-2.0-path-traversal-via-aspose-doc-exporter-download-php