High
Security advisory
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress allowed a Directory Traversal attack in the Customizer component via a crafted theme filename.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14722
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress allowed a Directory Traversal attack in the Customizer component via a crafted theme filename.
osv:CVE-2017-14722
Complete source record
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"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3997",
"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41397",
"https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release/",
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