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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery WordPress Plugin < 1.1.0 Path Traversal via download-image.php | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published: 2026-10-20T20:31:18.351Z
Updated: 2026-10-23T13:28:29.358Z
Reserved: 2026-10-14T20:25:21.968Z
Link: CVE-2012-20002
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-20T21:17:10.613
Modified: 2026-10-23T14:17:29.060
Link: CVE-2012-20002
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