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Javo Spot WordPress Theme < 3.0.0 Path Traversal via admin-ajax.php fn Parameter

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Javo Spot theme for WordPress before 3.0.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the fn parameter of the jvfrm_spot_get_json AJAX action. Attackers can send GET requests to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with fn set to ../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials and secret keys. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.

Announced Source revision 1
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CVE-2017-20287

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2017-20287

Javo Spot

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Structured affected-version data

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[
  {
    "vendor": "Javo Themes",
    "product": "Javo Spot",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "3.0.0",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2017-20287

Source reference: /cveMetadata/cveId

Publisher severity

high

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event
#50151 · Revision 1
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