Media File Manager <= 1.4.2 - Directory Traversal to Directory Listing

5.3
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2018-19040
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published May 11, 2018
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Pasquale Turi

Description

The Media File Manager plugin up to and including version 1.4.2 for WordPress allows directory listing via a ../ directory traversal in the dir parameter of an mrelocator_getdir action to the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php URI

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug media-file-manager (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.4.3, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.4.2
Patched Version
  • 1.4.3

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