CVE-2021-24549

MEDIUM

AceIDE < 2.6.2 - Authenticated Path Traversal via Unsanitized User Input

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c594abaf-b152-448c-8a20-9b3267fe547a
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-aceide/

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9
EPSS 0.0157
EPSS Percentile 72.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (1)
aceide_project/aceide < 2.6.2
Published Aug 23, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026