CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-20100

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.41%

34th percentile - higher than 34% of all known CVEs

Summary

Memphis Documents Library plugin for WordPress before 3.1.6 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the mdocs-img-preview parameter in GET requests.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can download wp-config.php and other files, exposing database credentials and enabling site takeover.

Recommendation

Upgrade the Memphis Documents Library plugin to version 3.1.6 or later and validate and normalize the mdocs-img-preview parameter.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Memphis Documents Library plugin for WordPress before 3.1.6 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the mdocs-img-preview parameter. Attackers can send GET requests with traversal sequences to mdocs_img_preview() in mdocs-downloads.php to download wp-config.php containing database credentials. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-22.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS