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CVE-2012-20002

7.5, high

James Charlesworth TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery Path Traversal Vulnerability

NVD (opens in a new tab) CVE.org (opens in a new tab)
CVSS
7.5, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
n/a
Exploitation
Exploit code published
Published
20 Oct 2026yesterday

Description

TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery plugin for WordPress before 1.1.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the href parameter. Attackers can send GET requests to /php/download-image.php with traversal sequences like ../../../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials and system files. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-19.

Details

Vendor
James Charlesworth
Product
TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery
Weakness
CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Received
Updated
20 Oct 2026
Assigner
disclosure@vulncheck.com

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References 6

Exploit code 1

Other references 5

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 21 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.