CVE-2019-8943
CVSS v3
6.5
MEDIUM
EPSS Score
92.0 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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- CVE-2019-8943 Red Hat Product Security
wordpress: path traversal in wp_crop_image()
Description
WordPress through 5.0.3 allows Path Traversal in wp_crop_image(). An attacker (who has privileges to crop an image) can write the output image to an arbitrary directory via a filename containing two image extensions and ../ sequences, such as a filename ending with the .jpg?/../../file.jpg substring.
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