CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2014-9734
MEDIUMEPSS 97th pctl5.0
CVSS v2
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Slider Revolution (revslider) plugin before 4.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the img parameter in a revslider_show_image action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
20.63%probability of exploitation in 30 days
97thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://marketblog.envato.com/news/affected-themes/
- http://marketblog.envato.com/news/plugin-vulnerability/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132366/WordPress-Revslider-4.2.2-XSS-Information-Disclosure.html
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34511
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/slider-revolution-plugin-critical-vulnerability-being-exploited.html
- https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/12/revslider-vulnerability-leads-to-massive-wordpress-soaksoak-compromise.html
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/patch-for-revolution-slider/trunk/revsliderpatch.php
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