CVE-2023-6160: LifterLMS <= 7.4.2 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Directory Traversal to Arbitrary CSV File Deletion — Wordfence Intelligence

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (‘Path Traversal’)

CVE

CVE-2023-6160

CVSS

3.3 (Low)

Publicly Published

November 5, 2023

Last Updated

November 22, 2023

Researcher

Hüseyin TINTAŞ

Description

The LifterLMS – WordPress LMS Plugin for eLearning plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 7.4.2 via the maybe_serve_export function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator or LMS manager access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary CSV files on the server, which can contain sensitive information as well as removing those files from the server.

References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org

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1 affected software package

Software Type

Plugin

Software Slug

lifterlms (view on wordpress.org)

Patched?

Yes

Remediation

Update to version 7.5.0, or a newer patched version

Affected Version

• <= 7.4.2

Patched Version

• 7.5.0

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