CVE-2015-5469

published 2017-05-23

CVE-2015-5469: Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the MDC YouTube Downloader plugin 2.1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full…

Priority P2 58 high 7.5 CVSS 3.0

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

EXPLOIT

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the MDC YouTube Downloader plugin 2.1.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter to includes/download.php.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mdc_youtube_downloader_project	mdc_youtube_downloader	—	—

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

path /wp-content/plugins/mdc-youtube-downloader/includes/download.php↗

url {{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/mdc-youtube-downloader/includes/download.php?file=/etc/passwd

• → Send a GET request to /wp-content/plugins/mdc-youtube-downloader/includes/download.php with the 'file' parameter set to an absolute path (e.g., /etc/passwd) and look for a 200 HTTP response containing 'root:[x*]:0:0' to confirm exploitation.
• → The vulnerable parameter is 'file' in a GET request to includes/download.php; any full/absolute pathname supplied will be read and returned directly by the plugin.

• · Vulnerability is specific to MDC YouTube Downloader plugin version 2.1.0 for WordPress; other versions are not confirmed affected. ↗

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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