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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-8104
CVE-2024-8104:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-8104) in all versions up to and including 3.0.8. The vulnerability exists in the downloadfileajax function, which can be exploited by authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 MEDIUM (NIST) and 8.8 HIGH (Wordfence). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L) requiring low privileges (PR:L) and no user interaction (UI:N) (NVD).
Impact
This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server. The accessed files may contain sensitive information that could be used for further attacks (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to version 3.0.9 or later of the WP Extended plugin which contains the fix for this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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