Vulnerability in Aspose Doc Exporter

[ Description ]Official description

Aspose Doc Exporter plugin for WordPress before 2.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files by passing unsanitized paths to readfile(). Attackers can send GET requests to aspose_doc_exporter_download.php with the 'file' parameter set to values like ../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-23.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/a…
• packetstorm.news/files/id/131167
• wordpress.org/plugins/aspose-doc-exporter
• wpscan.com/vulnerability/043aa583-a81d-4565-bf65-83252b8f1f96
• www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36559
• www.vulncheck.com/advisories/aspose-doc-exporter-wordpress-plugin-2.0-path-traversal-vi…