CVE-2014-4940

medium
Published 2014-07-11 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Tera Charts (tera-charts) plugin 0.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fn parameter to (1) charts/treemap.php or (2) charts/zoomabletreemap.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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39256 webapps php verified
Anant Shrivastava ยท 2014-05-28

WordPress Plugin Tera Charts (tera-charts) - '/charts/treemap.php?fn' Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.
EDB-39257 webapps php verified
Anant Shrivastava ยท 2014-05-28

WordPress Plugin Tera Charts (tera-charts) - '/charts/zoomabletreemap.php?fn' Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
tera_charts_plugin_projecttera-charts0.1

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.