TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery WordPress Plugin < 1.1.0 Path Traversal via download-image.php
TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery plugin for WordPress before 1.1.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the href parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /php/download-image.php with traversal sequences like ../../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials and system files. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.
- Products
- TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-20002
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:44 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery WordPress Plugin < 1.1.0 Path Traversal via download-image.php
core-cve · Original sourcePublished 20 Oct 2026, 20:31 UTC
TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery plugin for WordPress before 1.1.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the href parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /php/download-image.php with traversal sequences like ../../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials and system files. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.
cve:CVE-2012-20002
TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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