Smartypants SP Project & Document Manager Plugin up to 4.71 on WordPress path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Smartypants SP Project & Document Manager Plugin up to 4.71 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-37224. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Smartypants SP Project & Document Manager Plugin up to 4.71 on WordPress. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Smartypants SP Project & Document Manager allows Path Traversal.This issue affects SP Project & Document Manager: from n/a through 4.71.

The weakness was released by Catfather. It is possible to read the advisory at patchstack.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-37224 since 06/04/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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Type

• Project Management Software

Vendor

• Smartypants

Name

• SP Project & Document Manager Plugin

Version

• 4.0
• 4.1
• 4.2
• 4.3
• 4.4
• 4.5
• 4.6
• 4.7
• 4.8
• 4.9
• 4.10
• 4.11
• 4.12
• 4.13
• 4.14
• 4.15
• 4.16
• 4.17
• 4.18
• 4.19
• 4.20
• 4.21
• 4.22
• 4.23
• 4.24
• 4.25
• 4.26
• 4.27
• 4.28
• 4.29
• 4.30
• 4.31
• 4.32
• 4.33
• 4.34
• 4.35
• 4.36
• 4.37
• 4.38
• 4.39
• 4.40
• 4.41
• 4.42
• 4.43
• 4.44
• 4.45
• 4.46
• 4.47
• 4.48
• 4.49
• 4.50
• 4.51
• 4.52
• 4.53
• 4.54
• 4.55
• 4.56
• 4.57
• 4.58
• 4.59
• 4.60
• 4.61
• 4.62
• 4.63
• 4.64
• 4.65
• 4.66
• 4.67
• 4.68
• 4.69
• 4.70
• 4.71

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