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                    "vendor": "stiofansisland",
                    "product": "UsersWP – Front-end login form, User Registration, User Profile & Members Directory plugin for WP",
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                            "version": "0",
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "The UsersWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion in versions up to, and including, 1.2.70 via the upload_file_remove() AJAX handler. The plugin stores the value of an account 'file' form field taken directly from $_POST when no real $_FILES upload is provided (process_account() calls uwp_validate_fields() and array_merges the result with the empty output of UsersWP_Files::validate_uploads()). At storage time the value is only checked with validate_file(), which passes any string that does not contain a literal '../'. When the value is later processed by upload_file_remove(), it is again gated with validate_file() and then normalized through uwp_get_file_relative_url(); that helper performs a global str_replace() of the uploads base URL against the stored URL, allowing a crafted URL containing embedded '..<uploads-baseurl>' tokens to collapse into '../../' traversal sequences after the last validation. The transformed value is then appended to the uploads base directory and passed to wp_delete_file() without any canonical containment check. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server (including wp-config."
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            "title": "UsersWP <= 1.2.70 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Deletion",
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                    "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dfa094d3-e8db-4402-ad23-e161b1b6181e?source=cve"
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                    "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3650759%40userswp%2Ftrunk&old=3618724%40userswp%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail="
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                            "description": "CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')",
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