article2pdf Plugin 0.24/0.25/0.26/0.27 on WordPress PDF File information disclosure

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in article2pdf Plugin 0.24/0.25/0.26/0.27 on WordPress. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation as part of PDF File leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-1010257. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in article2pdf Plugin 0.24/0.25/0.26/0.27 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation as part of a PDF File leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An Information Disclosure / Data Modification issue exists in article2pdf_getfile.php in the article2pdf Wordpress plugin 0.24, 0.25, 0.26, 0.27. A URL can be constructed which allows overriding the PDF file's path leading to any PDF whose path is known and which is readable to the web server can be downloaded. The file will be deleted after download if the web server has permission to do so. For PHP versions before 5.3, any file can be read by null terminating the string left of the file extension.

The bug was discovered 03/26/2019. The weakness was disclosed 03/27/2019 as not defined mailinglist post (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-1010257 since 03/20/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• article2pdf Plugin

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• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27

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