🛡️ CVE-2023-2688
🟡 CVSS 4.9 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
4.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The WordPress File Upload and WordPress File Upload Pro plugins for WordPress are vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions up to, and including, 4.19.1 via the vulnerable parameter wfu_newpath. This allows administrator-level attackers to move files uploaded with the plugin (located in wp-content/uploads by default) outside of the web root.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-06-09
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-04-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wordpress-file-upload 4.19.1
wordpress-file-upload-pro 4.19.1

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