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CVE-2024-9224

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2024-10-01 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The Hello World plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Reading in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.1 via the hello_world_lyric() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Affected Platforms

Kau-Boys Hello World

Weakness Type

CWE-22, CWE-22

References