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WordPress Plugin: media-from-ftp: CVE-2018-5310: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Nov 13, 2018

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 5, 2026

Description

The Media from FTP Plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 9.84 via the searchdir parameter to the wp-admin/admin.php?pageequal tomediafromftp-search-register URI. This allows unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Solution

media-from-ftp-plugin-cve-2018-5310

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-5310
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/561361da-ea4b-44d0-be77-c622af11f5b4?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-17089
CVE-2018-5310
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-5310
CWE-22
EUVD-EUVD-2018-17089

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