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CVE-2016-20103: Cherry Plugin for WordPress < 1.2.7 Path Traversal via download-content.php

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-20 · updated 2026-10-22
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Cherry Plugin for WordPress before 1.2.7 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to download arbitrary files via the 'file' parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /admin/import-export/download-content.php with traversal sequences like ../../../../../wp-config.php to read database credentials, since the script passes input directly to readfile(). Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.

Affected products

• Cherry Team Cherry Plugin: from 1.1 before 1.2.7 — fixed in 1.2.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cherry Team Cherry Plugin 1.2.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/CherryFramework/cherry-plugin/commit/69a3f7b
• https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/cherry-file-download.yaml
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/90034817-dee7-40c9-80a2-1f1cd1d033ee
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cherry-plugin-for-wordpress-1.2.7-path-traversal-via-download-content-php

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