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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wp-file-upload: CVE-2020-10564: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the File Upload plugin before 4.13.0 for WordPress. A directory traversal can lead to remote code execution by uploading a crafted txt file into the lib directory, because of a wfu_include_lib call.

Solution

wp-file-upload-plugin-cve-2020-10564
Title
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