Enable Media Replace Plugin up to 3.x on WordPress path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Enable Media Replace Plugin up to 3.x on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-2554. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Enable Media Replace Plugin up to 3.x on WordPress (WordPress Plugin) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Enable Media Replace WordPress plugin before 4.0.0 does not ensure that renamed files are moved to the Upload folder, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to move them outside to the web root directory via a path traversal attack for example

The weakness was shared 10/11/2022. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-2554 since 07/27/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 4.0.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2022-34808). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Enable Media Replace Plugin 4.0.0

Timelineinfo

07/27/2022 🔍
10/11/2022 +76 days 🔍
10/11/2022 +0 days 🔍
05/26/2026 +1323 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wpscan.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-2554 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-2554
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-210389
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Entryinfo

Created: 10/11/2022 10:12
Updated: 05/26/2026 05:09
Changes: 10/11/2022 10:12 (40), 10/31/2022 15:01 (11), 05/26/2026 05:09 (15)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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