Gravity Forms Plugin up to 3.2.1 on WordPress Chunked File Upload path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Gravity Forms Plugin up to 3.2.1. This affects an unknown part of the component Chunked File Upload. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-119529. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Gravity Forms Plugin up to 3.2.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Chunked File Upload. 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 Gravity Forms WordPress plugin before 3.2.2 does not properly restrict the file types that unauthenticated users can upload through its chunked file upload feature, allowing them to read server environment variables and the contents of files within the web root on servers configured to parse Server-Side Include documents, such as Apache with SSI enabled.

It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-119529 since 10/30/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 3.2.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Gravity Forms Plugin

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• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1

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