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Path Traversal occurrences in Booster For Woocommerce
The Booster for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.6.7, Booster Plus for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 5.6.5, Booster Elite for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 1.1.7 do not validate files to download in some of its modules, which could allow ShopManager and Admin to download arbitrary files from the server even when they are not supposed to be able to (for example in multisite) (2022-11-21, CVE-2022-3762)
Why Path Traversal can be dangerous
Relative Path Confusion means that your web server is configured to serve responses to ambiguous URLs. This configuration can possibly cause confusion about the correct relative path for the URL. It is also an issue of resources, such as images, styles etc., which are specified in the response using relative path, not the absolute URL.
If the web browser permits to parse "cross-content" response, the attacker may be able to fool the web browser into interpreting HTML into other content types, which can then lead to a cross site scripting attack (link do XSS).