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CVE-2018-8711

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

A local file inclusion issue was discovered in the WooCommerce Products Filter (aka WOOF) plugin before 2.2.0 for WordPress, as demonstrated by the shortcode parameter in a woof_redraw_woof action. The vulnerability is due to the lack of args/input validation on render_html before allowing it to be called by extract(), a PHP built-in function. Because of this, the supplied args/input can be used to overwrite the $pagepath variable, which then could lead to a local file inclusion attack.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Woocommerce-filter — Woocommerce Products Filter

CWEs

References

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