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CVE-2024-9224

Published: Oct 1, 2024

Modified: Apr 8, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
kau-boy	Hello World	affected `0 - <= 2.1.1`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f58df1f-66f7-4e3d-af6d-08174653a2ad?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L35

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L113

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161773/

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