CVE-2012-4920

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-04-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

Zingiri Forums: through 1.4.3; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+13)

References

http://osvdb.org/89069
http://secunia.com/advisories/50833
http://wordpress.org/plugins/zingiri-forum/changelog
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81156
http://osvdb.org/89069
http://secunia.com/advisories/50833
http://wordpress.org/plugins/zingiri-forum/changelog
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81156

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