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WordPress Subscribe Comments File Read Vulnerability

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits an authenticated directory traversal vulnerability
in WordPress Plugin "Subscribe to Comments" version 2.1.2, allowing
to read arbitrary files with the web server privileges.

Authors

Tom Adams [email protected]
Roberto Soares Espreto [email protected]

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_subscribe_comments_file_read
    msf auxiliary(wp_subscribe_comments_file_read) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(wp_subscribe_comments_file_read) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(wp_subscribe_comments_file_read) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(wp_subscribe_comments_file_read) > run
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