7.5

CVE-2017-14719: wordpress Path Traversal

CVSS: 7.5v3.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2017-14719DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14719
Published 23-09-2017Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-14719 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Path Traversal vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 12.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.1% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.7.22.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
12.37%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DLA-1151-1DSA-3997-1

Timeline

  1. 23-09-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 3 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

12.37%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 12.37% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
12.37%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress< 3.7 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 3.7, ≤ 3.7.21 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 3.8, ≤ 3.8.21 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 3.9, ≤ 3.9.19 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.0, ≤ 4.0.18 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.1, ≤ 4.1.18 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.2, ≤ 4.2.15 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.3, ≤ 4.3.11 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.4, ≤ 4.4.10 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.5, ≤ 4.5.9 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.6, ≤ 4.6.6 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.7, ≤ 4.7.5 (fixed in 3.7.22) | ≥ 4.8, ≤ 4.8.1 (fixed in 3.7.22)
  • wordpressEOL3.0 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.1 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.2 | 3.2.1 | 3.3 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.3.3 | 3.4 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.5 | 3.5.1 | 3.5.2 | 3.6 | 3.6.1 | 3.7 | 3.7.1 | 3.7.2 | 3.7.3 | 3.7.4 | 3.7.5 | 3.7.6 | 3.7.7 | 3.7.8 | 3.7.9 | 3.7.10 | 3.7.11 | 3.7.12 | 3.7.13 | 3.7.14 | 3.7.15 | 3.7.16 | 3.7.17 | 3.7.18 | 3.7.19 | 3.7.20 | 3.7.21 | 3.7.22 | 3.8 | 3.8.1 | 3.8.2 | 3.8.3 | 3.8.4 | 3.8.5 | 3.8.6 | 3.8.7 | 3.8.8 | 3.8.9 | 3.8.10 | 3.8.11 | 3.8.12 | 3.8.13 | 3.8.14 | 3.8.15 | 3.8.16 | 3.8.17 | 3.8.18 | 3.8.19 | 3.8.20 | 3.8.21 | 3.8.22 | 3.9 | 3.9.1 | 3.9.2 | 3.9.3 | 3.9.4 | 3.9.5 | 3.9.6 | 3.9.7 | 3.9.8 | 3.9.9 | 3.9.10 | 3.9.11 | 3.9.12 | 3.9.13 | 3.9.14 | 3.9.15 | 3.9.16 | 3.9.17 | 3.9.18 | 3.9.19 | 3.9.20 | 4.0 | 4.0.1 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.3 | 4.0.4 | 4.0.5 | 4.0.6 | 4.0.7 | 4.0.8 | 4.0.9 | 4.0.10 | 4.0.11 | 4.0.12 | 4.0.13 | 4.0.14 | 4.0.15 | 4.0.16 | 4.0.17 | 4.0.18 | 4.0.19 | 4.1 | 4.1.1 | 4.1.2 | 4.1.3 | 4.1.4 | 4.1.5 | 4.1.6 | 4.1.7 | 4.1.8 | 4.1.9 | 4.1.10 | 4.1.11 | 4.1.12 | 4.1.13 | 4.1.14 | 4.1.15 | 4.1.16 | 4.1.17 | 4.1.18 | 4.1.19 | 4.2 | 4.2.1 | 4.2.2 | 4.2.3 | 4.2.4 | 4.2.5 | 4.2.6 | 4.2.7 | 4.2.8 | 4.2.9 | 4.2.10 | 4.2.11 | 4.2.12 | 4.2.13 | 4.2.14 | 4.2.15 | 4.2.16 | 4.3 | 4.3.1 | 4.3.2 | 4.3.3 | 4.3.4 | 4.3.5 | 4.3.6 | 4.3.7 | 4.3.8 | 4.3.9 | 4.3.10 | 4.3.11 | 4.3.12 | 4.4 | 4.4.1 | 4.4.2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.4 | 4.4.5 | 4.4.6 | 4.4.7 | 4.4.8 | 4.4.9 | 4.4.10 | 4.4.11 | 4.5 | 4.5.1 | 4.5.2 | 4.5.3 | 4.5.4 | 4.5.5 | 4.5.6 | 4.5.7 | 4.5.8 | 4.5.9 | 4.5.10 | 4.6 | 4.6.1 | 4.6.2 | 4.6.3 | 4.6.4 | 4.6.5 | 4.6.6 | 4.6.7 | 4.7 | 4.7.1 | 4.7.2 | 4.7.3 | 4.7.4 | 4.7.5 | 4.8 | 4.8.1
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 4.8.2+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • wordpressAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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