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Path Traversal occurrences in Product Configurator For Woocommerce
The Product Configurator for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 1.2.32 suffers from an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability via an AJAX action, accessible to unauthenticated users, which accepts user input that is being used in a path and passed to unlink() without validation first (2022-06-27, CVE-2022-1953)
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).