vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: media-file-manager: CVE-2018-19042: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 11, 2018
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Media File Manager plugin 1.4.2 for WordPress allows arbitrary file movement via a ../ directory traversal in the dir_from and dir_to parameters of an mrelocator_move action to the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php URI.

Solution

media-file-manager-plugin-cve-2018-19042
Title
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