CVE-2021-24549
Published: 23 August 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-24549 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Aceide Project Aceide. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 22.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-11461
Vulnerability details
The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users…
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such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.