CVE-2014-2674

published 2018-03-19

CVE-2014-2674: Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ajax Pagination (twitter Style) plugin 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot…

Priority P2 62 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

EXPLOIT

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ajax Pagination (twitter Style) plugin 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the loop parameter in an ajax_navigation action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
ajax-pagination_project	ajax-pagination	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url /wordpress/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php↗

command paged=2&action=ajax_navigation&loop=../../../wp-login↗

path ajax-pagination-front.php↗

• → Monitor POST requests to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php where the 'action' parameter equals 'ajax_navigation' and the 'loop' parameter contains directory traversal sequences (e.g., '../'). ↗
• → The exploit is unauthenticated — flag any unauthenticated (nopriv) POST to admin-ajax.php with action=ajax_navigation as suspicious, regardless of authentication state. ↗

• · Exploitation requires the Ajax Pagination (twitter Style) plugin version 1.1 to be installed and active on the WordPress instance. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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