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Description
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Ben Schmidt has discovered a vulnerability in the Mini Mail Dashboard Widget plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
Input passed to the "abspath" parameter in wordpress/wp-content/plugins/mini-mail-dashboard-widget/wp-mini-mail.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external resources.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.36. Prior versions may also be affected.
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Vulnerable Products
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Vulnerable Software:
WordPress Mini Mail Dashboard Widget Plugin 1.x
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Solution
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Update to version 1.37.
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CVE
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References
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Mini Mail Dashboard Widget Plugin Trac:
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&
new=437191%40mini-mail-dashboard-widget&
old=436773%40mini-mail-dashboard-widget
Ben Schmidt:
http://spareclockcycles.org/2011/09/18/exploitring-the-wordpress-extension-repos/
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Vulnerability Manager Detection
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No
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IPS Protection
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