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CRITICAL

Admin Word Count Column <= 2.2 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

Published Apr 25, 2022

Description

The Admin Word Count Column WordPress plugin through 2.2 does not validate the path parameter given to readfile(), which could allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on server running old version of PHP susceptible to the null byte technique. This could also lead to RCE by using a Phar Deserialization technique

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Remediation

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Weaknesses (1)

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner WPScan
Published Apr 25, 2022
Updated Aug 3, 2024
Reserved Apr 19, 2022

CISA Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner WPScan
Published Apr 25, 2022
Updated Aug 3, 2024

GitHub

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