# CVE-2024-10708: System Dashboard < 2.8.15 - Admin+ Path Traversal

> Administrators can exploit a path traversal vulnerability in the System Dashboard plugin to read arbitrary files on the server.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 10 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j3vp-3p2j-8q53

## What is CVE-2024-10708?

CVE-2024-10708 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown System Dashboard, published on 10 Dec 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The System Dashboard WordPress plugin before 2.8.15 does not validate user input used in a path, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform path traversal attacks an read arbitrary files on the server

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10708?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Bowo System Dashboard.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10708?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10708 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10708 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10708 exists.

Public exploit code:

- System Dashboard < 2.8.15 - Admin+ Path Traversal (nuclei): http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-10708.yaml

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown System Dashboard

- [CVE-2024-12299](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12299/): System Dashboard <= 2.8.17 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via Filename Parameter (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-11107](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-11107/): System Dashboard < 2.8.15 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-7246](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-7246/): System Dashboard < 2.8.10 - XSS via Header Injection (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2023-5710](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5710/): System Dashboard <= 2.8.7 - Missing Authorization to Information Disclosure (sd_constants) (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2023-5711](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-5711/): System Dashboard <= 2.8.8 - Missing Authorization to Information Disclosure (sd_php_info) (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10708 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10708 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown System Dashboard, published on 10 Dec 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10708 exists.

Affected product: Unknown System Dashboard. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10708/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10708/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10708
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10708
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10708

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10708/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.