CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-9224
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-10-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
Affected configurations
• kau-boys hello world (< 2.2.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L113 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L35 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161773/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f58df1f-66f7-4e3d-af6d-08174653a2ad?source=cve Third Party Advisory