CVE-2014-8606

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the XCloner plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress and 3.5.1 for Joomla! allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter in a json_return action in the xcloner_show page to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Affected products

Xcloner: 3.1.1, 3.5.1

References

http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/wordpress/plugins/Xcloner-v3.1.1/
http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=110
http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisories/wordpress/plugins/Xcloner-v3.1.1/
http://www.vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php?v=110

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