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CVE-2012-20002

TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery WordPress Plugin < 1.1.0 Path Traversal via download-image.php

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.1.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery plugin for WordPress before 1.1.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the href parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /php/download-image.php with traversal sequences like ../../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials and system files. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • James Charlesworth TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery

    From 0.10 · fixed in 1.1.0

References 6

packetstorm.news

Exploit-DB

wpscan.com

GitHub · projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates

wordpress.org

vulncheck.com