CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2024-9224
Medium (6.5) in kau-boys hello world. EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 73% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- kau-boys:hello_world
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L113
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hello-world/tags/2.1.1/hello-world.php#L35
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161773/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2f58df1f-66f7-4e3d-af6d-08174653a2ad?source=cve