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WordPress GI-Media Library Plugin Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a directory traversal vulnerability in WordPress Plugin GI-Media Library version 2.2.2, allowing to read arbitrary files from the system with the web server privileges. This module has been tested successfully on GI-Media Library version 2.2.2 with WordPress 4.1.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 Server.

Author(s)

  • Unknown
  • Roberto Soares Espreto <robertoespreto@gmail.com>

Development

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_gimedia_library_file_read
msf auxiliary(wp_gimedia_library_file_read) > show actions
    ...actions...
msf auxiliary(wp_gimedia_library_file_read) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(wp_gimedia_library_file_read) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(wp_gimedia_library_file_read) > run

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