vulnerability

Wordpress: CVE-2017-14719: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Sep 23, 2017
Added
Oct 12, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Before version 4.8.2, WordPress was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack during unzip operations in the ZipArchive and PclZip components.

Solution

wordpress-upgrade-4_8_2
Title
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