Vulnerability CVE-2012-4920
Published: 2014-04-04

Description:
Directory traversal vulnerability in the zing_forum_output function in forum.php in the Zingiri Forum (aka Forums) plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the url parameter to index.php.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Zingiri -> Forums 

 References:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/zingiri-forum/changelog
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/81156
http://secunia.com/advisories/50833
http://osvdb.org/89069
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