CVE-2014-9734

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Slider Revolution (revslider) plugin before 4.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the img parameter in a revslider_show_image action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Affected products

Revolution Slider Slider Revolution: through 4.1.4

References

http://marketblog.envato.com/news/affected-themes/
http://marketblog.envato.com/news/plugin-vulnerability/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132366/WordPress-Revslider-4.2.2-XSS-Information-Disclosure.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34511
https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/slider-revolution-plugin-critical-vulnerability-being-exploited.html
https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/12/revslider-vulnerability-leads-to-massive-wordpress-soaksoak-compromise.html
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/patch-for-revolution-slider/trunk/revsliderpatch.php
http://marketblog.envato.com/news/affected-themes/
http://marketblog.envato.com/news/plugin-vulnerability/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132366/WordPress-Revslider-4.2.2-XSS-Information-Disclosure.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34511
https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/09/slider-revolution-plugin-critical-vulnerability-being-exploited.html

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