AA-Team WZone Plugin up to 14.0.31 on WordPress path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in AA-Team WZone Plugin up to 14.0.31 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-27040. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in AA-Team WZone Plugin up to 14.0.31 on WordPress. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in AA-Team WZone woozone allows Path Traversal.This issue affects WZone: from n/a through <= 14.0.31.

The weakness was published by Phat Rio. The advisory is shared at patchstack.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-27040 since 02/17/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/01/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• AA-Team

Name

• WZone Plugin

Version

• 14.0.0
• 14.0.1
• 14.0.2
• 14.0.3
• 14.0.4
• 14.0.5
• 14.0.6
• 14.0.7
• 14.0.8
• 14.0.9
• 14.0.10
• 14.0.11
• 14.0.12
• 14.0.13
• 14.0.14
• 14.0.15
• 14.0.16
• 14.0.17
• 14.0.18
• 14.0.19
• 14.0.20
• 14.0.21
• 14.0.22
• 14.0.23
• 14.0.24
• 14.0.25
• 14.0.26
• 14.0.27
• 14.0.28
• 14.0.29
• 14.0.30
• 14.0.31

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