vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: shortcodes-ultimate: CVE-2017-2245: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 23, 2017
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Shortcodes Ultimate prior to version 4.10.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Solution

shortcodes-ultimate-plugin-cve-2017-2245
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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