Broadstreet Ad Widget plugin for WordPress 2.2.0 before 2.12.0 contains a local file inclusion vulnerability that allows authenticated users to execute attacker-chosen PHP files by passing unsanitized input to require in views/modal/index.php. Attackers can supply directory traversal sequences in the 'step' parameter, optionally with a null byte, to include local files and execute PHP code. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 3
- StatusPublished → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-22 17:40
- StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-22 10:57
- First seenCVSS 7.7NVD modified 2026-10-22 11:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 7
- https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2017100084
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/ad-widget-lfi.yaml
- https://packetstorm.news/files/id/144553/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1628751/ad-widget
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-widget/
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/caca21fe-56bf-4d4c-afc8-4a218e52f0a2
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/broadstreet-ad-widget-wordpress-plugin-2.12.0-local-file-inclusion-via-step-parameter