# CVE-2024-10708: System Dashboard WordPress Plugin - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-10708 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-10708

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 4.9
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Bowo System Dashboard
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

The System Dashboard WordPress plugin before 2.8.15 does not validate user input used in a path, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform path traversal attacks an read arbitrary files on the server

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-10708](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10708) is a vulnerability in the System Dashboard WordPress plugin prior to version 2.8.15 that allows high-privilege users, such as administrators, to exploit improper input validation for path traversal attacks. This flaw could enable attackers with admin access to read arbitrary files on the server, potentially exposing sensitive information.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 29th of October 2025.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2024-10708 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit the `/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php` endpoint with the `action=sd_viewer` and a crafted `filename` parameter to perform path traversal and access sensitive files such as `wp-config.php`. This attack pattern specifically targets WordPress sites with the System Dashboard plugin enabled.

## Timeline

- 2024-12-10: CVE Published. CVE-2024-10708 is published to NVD.
- 2025-10-29: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-10708 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/61d750a5-8c2c-4c94-a1a9-6a254c2a0d03/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-10708.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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