CVE-2012-0896

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 22.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-01-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in download.php in the Count Per Day module before 3.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the f parameter.

Affected products

Count Per Day Project Count Per Day: 2.2, 2.15, 2.15.1, 2.16
Tom Braider Count Per Day: through 3.1; 1.0

References

http://osvdb.org/78270
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/108631/countperday-downloadxss.txt
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/488883/count-per-day
http://secunia.com/advisories/47529
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/count-per-day/changelog/
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18355
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51402
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72385
http://osvdb.org/78270
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/108631/countperday-downloadxss.txt
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/488883/count-per-day
http://secunia.com/advisories/47529

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