Advanced Access Manager <= 5.9.8.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

9.8
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2019-25213
CVSS 9.8 (Critical)
Publicly Published September 9, 2019
Last Updated October 16, 2024
Researcher Ov3rfly

Description

The Advanced Access Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read in versions up to, and including, 5.9.8.1 due to insufficient validation on the aam-media parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to read any file on the server, including sensitive files such as wp-config.php

Wordfence blocked 2,277 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug advanced-access-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 5.9.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 5.9.9
Patched Version
  • 5.9.9

Recent vulnerabilities in Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress

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2 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.9.20 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-29127 6.1 Rafie Muhammad March 20, 2024
3 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.9.20 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2024-29124 5.5 Delbert Giovanni Lie March 16, 2024
4 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.9.18 - Authenticated (Author+) Open Redirect CVE-2023-51675 4.3 LVT-tholv2k December 27, 2023
5 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.9.18 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode CVE-2023-51674 6.4 LVT-tholv2k December 27, 2023
6 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.9.15 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-50881 6.4 Ngô Thiên An (ancorn_) December 26, 2023
7 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.7.9 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2021-24830 4.8 Huy Nguyen October 19, 2021
8 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.6.1 - Authenticated Information Disclosure CVE-2020-35934 4.3 Ram August 20, 2020
9 Advanced Access Manager <= 6.6.1 - Authenticated Authorization Bypass and Privilege Escalation CVE-2020-35935 7.5 Ram August 14, 2020
10 Advanced Access Manager <= 3.2.1 - Unrestricted AJAX Actions allowing Privilege Escalation 8.8 James Golovich June 21, 2016

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