Medium severity4.9NVD Advisory· Published Aug 23, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-24549
CVE-2021-24549
Description
The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.
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Affected products
2- WordPress/AceIDEdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-aceide/nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/c594abaf-b152-448c-8a20-9b3267fe547anvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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