CVE-2017-14722

high
Published 2017-09-23 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Before version 4.8.2, WordPress allowed a Directory Traversal attack in the Customizer component via a crafted theme filename.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.8.2+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.8.2+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.8.2+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed4.8.2+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.8.2+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.7.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.7.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.7.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.7.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.7.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress4.8.1

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.