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CVE-2017-15079

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-10-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Smush Image Compression and Optimization plugin before 2.7.6 for WordPress allows directory traversal.

Affected products

• Smush – Lazy Load Images, Optimize & Compress Images: through 2.7.5

References

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/#developers
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-transversal-bug/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/#developers
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-transversal-bug/

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