CVE-2014-2674

Ajax Pagination vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

15.7%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Ajax Pagination (twitter Style) plugin 1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the loop parameter in an ajax_navigation action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Affected vendor

Ajax Pagination Project

Affected product

Ajax Pagination

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2018-03-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 15.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-2674

Confirm whether Ajax Pagination Project Ajax Pagination is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-2674.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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