Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-24154 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties vulnerability in Themeeditor Theme Editor

CVSS 4.9 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

HIGH

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

NONE

network

low complexity

themeeditor

CWE-552

NVD

Published: 2021-04-05

Updated: 2021-04-19

Summary

The Theme Editor WordPress plugin before 2.6 did not validate the GET file parameter before passing it to the download_file() function, allowing administrators to download arbitrary files on the web server, such as /etc/passwd

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Themeeditor Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.2 Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.3 Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.4 Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.5 Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.6 Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.7 Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.8 Themeeditor Theme Editor 1.9 Themeeditor Theme Editor 2.0 Themeeditor Theme Editor 2.1 Themeeditor Theme Editor 2.2 Themeeditor Theme Editor 2.3 Themeeditor Theme Editor 2.4 Themeeditor Theme Editor 2.5	14

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/566c6836-fc3d-4dd9-b351-c3d9da9ec22e