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CVE-2017-14719

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Path traversal
7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

Before version 4.8.2, WordPress was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack during unzip operations in the ZipArchive and PclZip components.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)51%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41457 ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC