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WordPress 4.4-4.8.1 - Path Traversal in Customizer

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in the customizer. Reported by Weston Ruter of the WordPress Security Team.

Affects WordPress

4.7
Fixed in version 4.7.6
4.7.1
Fixed in version 4.7.6
4.7.2
Fixed in version 4.7.6
4.7.3
Fixed in version 4.7.6
4.7.4
Fixed in version 4.7.6
4.7.5
Fixed in version 4.7.6
4.8
Fixed in version 4.8.2
4.8.1
Fixed in version 4.8.2

References

CVE
CVE-2017-14722
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41397

Classification

Type

LFI

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-22

Miscellaneous

Submitter

ethicalhack3r

Submitter twitter
ethicalhack3r
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
6ef4eb23-d5a9-44b3-8402-f4b7b1a91522

Timeline

Publicly Published

2017-09-19 (about 5 years ago)

Added

2017-09-25 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2020-09-22 (about 2 years ago)

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