String Locator < 2.5.0 - Admin+ Arbitrary File Read
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.4%
exploitation probability
1.4%top 31% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The String locator WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 does not properly validate the path of the files to be searched, allowing high privilege users such as admin to query arbitrary files on the web server via a path traversal vector. Furthermore, due to a flaw in the search, allowing a pattern to be provided, which will be used to output the relevant matches from the matching file, all content of the file can be disclosed.
Affected products
Unknown · String locator