CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-1010257
9.1 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
An Information Disclosure / Data Modification issue exists in article2pdf_getfile.php in the article2pdf Wordpress plugin 0.24, 0.25, 0.26, 0.27. A URL can be constructed which allows overriding the PDF file's path leading to any PDF whose path is known and which is readable to the web server can be downloaded. The file will be deleted after download if the web server has permission to do so. For PHP versions before 5.3, any file can be read by null terminating the string left of the file extension.
Affected configurations
• article2pdf project article2pdf (>= 0.24 <= 0.27)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152236/WordPress-article2pdf-0.24-DoS-File-Deletion-Disclosure.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/49 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pdf-download-path-improperly-sanitised/ Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9246 Third Party Advisory
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152236/WordPress-article2pdf-0.24-DoS-File-Deletion-Disclosure.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/49 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pdf-download-path-improperly-sanitised/ Third Party Advisory
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9246 Third Party Advisory