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WordPress Plugin: host-webfonts-local: CVE-2021-24638: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

Published

Aug 23, 2021

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The OMGF WordPress plugin before 4.5.4 does not escape or validate the handle parameter of the REST API, which allows unauthenticated users to perform path traversal and overwrite arbitrary CSS file with Google Fonts CSS, or download fonts uploaded on Google Fonts website.

Solution

host-webfonts-local-plugin-cve-2021-24638

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24638
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b90640d2-d6f4-4c3b-8e9b-038d57f5fd6f?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11550
CVE-2021-24638
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24638
CWE-22
EUVD-EUVD-2021-11550

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