CVE-2019-1010257

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

article2pdf Wordpress plug-in: from 0.24 through 0.27

References

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152236/WordPress-article2pdf-0.24-DoS-File-Deletion-Disclosure.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/49
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pdf-download-path-improperly-sanitised/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9246
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152236/WordPress-article2pdf-0.24-DoS-File-Deletion-Disclosure.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/49
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pdf-download-path-improperly-sanitised/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9246

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