CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-24549
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.
Affected configurations
• aceide project aceide (<= 2.6.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-aceide/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c594abaf-b152-448c-8a20-9b3267fe547a Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-aceide/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c594abaf-b152-448c-8a20-9b3267fe547a Exploit, Third Party Advisory