CVE-2024-9224

Description

The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f58df1f-66f7-4e3d-af6d-08174653a2ad?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161773/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L35

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L113

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS