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WordPress Plugin: wp-smushit: CVE-2017-15079: 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 21, 2017
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026

Description

The Smush Image Compression and Optimization plugin before 2.7.6 for WordPress allows directory traversal.

Solution

wp-smushit-plugin-cve-2017-15079
Title
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