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CVE-2017-2245

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-07-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Shortcodes Ultimate prior to version 4.10.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate: through 4.9.9

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99495
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN63249051/index.html
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1684377/#file217
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/#developers
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99495
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN63249051/index.html
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1684377/#file217
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/#developers

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