CVE-2019-8943

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 92.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

WordPress through 5.0.3 allows Path Traversal in wp_crop_image(). An attacker (who has privileges to crop an image) can write the output image to an arbitrary directory via a filename containing two image extensions and ../ sequences, such as a filename ending with the .jpg?/../../file.jpg substring.

Affected products

WordPress: through 5.0.3

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152396/WordPress-5.0.0-crop-image-Shell-Upload.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161213/WordPress-5.0.0-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/http/wp_crop_rce
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107089
https://blog.ripstech.com/2019/wordpress-image-remote-code-execution/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46511/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46662/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152396/WordPress-5.0.0-crop-image-Shell-Upload.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161213/WordPress-5.0.0-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/http/wp_crop_rce
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107089
https://blog.ripstech.com/2019/wordpress-image-remote-code-execution/

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