VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4915

medium
Published 2014-05-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Google Doc Embedder plugin before 2.5.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter to libs/pdf.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-23970 webapps php verified
Metasploit · 2013-01-08

WordPress Plugin Google Document Embedder - Arbitrary File Disclosure (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_unix/webapp/wp_google_document_embedder_exec rank 300
WordPress Plugin Google Document Embedder Arbitrary File Disclosure
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder{"endIncluding":"2.5.3"}
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.0
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.1
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.2
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.2.1
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.2.2
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.2.3
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.3
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.4
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.4.1
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.4.2
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.4.3
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.4.4
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.4.5
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.4.6
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.5
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.5.1
davistribegoogle_doc_embedder2.5.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress-

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.