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WordPress Plugin: photo-gallery: CVE-2023-1427: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Mar 21, 2023

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Photo Gallery plugin by 10Web for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 1.8.14 via the dir parameter. This allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions to upload files to arbitrary directories on the server.

Solution

photo-gallery-plugin-cve-2023-1427

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1427
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a0f55f3e-9a9a-42a7-91b5-0d515519d545?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2023-23680
CVE-2023-1427
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2023-1427
EUVD-EUVD-2023-23680

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