CVE-2012-4920

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Published 2014-04-04 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the zing_forum_output function in forum.php in the Zingiri Forum (aka Forums) plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the url parameter to index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
zingiri	forums	`{"endIncluding":"1.4.3"}`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.0`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.1`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.2`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.3`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.4`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.5`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.6`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.7`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.8`
zingiri	forums	`1.0.9`
zingiri	forums	`1.1.0`
zingiri	forums	`1.1.1`
zingiri	forums	`1.2.0`
zingiri	forums	`1.2.1`
zingiri	forums	`1.3.0`
zingiri	forums	`1.3.1`
zingiri	forums	`1.4.0`
zingiri	forums	`1.4.1`
zingiri	forums	`1.4.2`
wordpress	wordpress	`-`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.