vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: user-meta: CVE-2022-0779: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N) | May 16, 2022 | May 15, 2025 | Jun 24, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 16, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025
Description
The User Meta WordPress plugin before 2.4.4 does not validate the filepath parameter of its um_show_uploaded_file AJAX action, which could allow low privileged users such as subscriber to enumerate the local files on the web server via path traversal payloads
Solution
user-meta-plugin-cve-2022-0779
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