CVE-2024-9224

Published Oct 1, 2024

Last updated 5 months ago

CVSS medium 6.5

Overview

Description: The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
Source: security@wordfence.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.5
Impact score: 3.6
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Severity: MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22
security@wordfence.com: CWE-22

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:kau-boys:hello_world:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "F2B63C42-1B91-4315-83AC-DD03553DF044",
            "versionEndExcluding": "2.2.0"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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