CVE-2018-7422

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 62.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

A Local File Inclusion vulnerability in the Site Editor plugin through 1.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to retrieve arbitrary files via the ajax_path parameter to editor/extensions/pagebuilder/includes/ajax_shortcode_pattern.php, aka absolute path traversal.

Affected products

Siteeditor Site Editor: through 1.1.1

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Mar/40
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9044
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44340/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Mar/40
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9044
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44340/

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