{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0493 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0493 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2022-0493 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown String locator, published on 28 Mar 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-0493 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-0493 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown String locator, published on 28 Mar 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0493 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Unknown String locator. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0493/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0493/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-0493","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0493/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-0493","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-qh3x-66g3-36hw"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Administrators can read arbitrary files on the web server due to improper path validation in the String Locator plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"WPScan","cpe":[{"product":"string_locator","vendor":"string_locator_project"}],"cvss":{"score":4.9,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"The String locator WordPress plugin before 2.5.0 does not properly validate the path of the files to be searched, allowing high privilege users such as admin to query arbitrary files on the web server via a path traversal vector. Furthermore, due to a flaw in the search, allowing a pattern to be provided, which will be used to output the relevant matches from the matching file, all content of the file can be disclosed.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"String Locator \u003c 2.5.0 - Admin+ Arbitrary File Read","id":"CVE-2022-0493","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2022"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in kernel","id":"CVE-2022-0494"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Authentication","id":"CVE-2022-0492"},"products":["String locator"],"published":"2022-03-28","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-02","vendors":["Unknown"]},"summary":"Administrators can read arbitrary files on the web server due to improper path validation in the String Locator plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0493/"}