CVE-2023-2745

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

WordPress Core is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in versions up to, and including, 6.2, via the ‘wp_lang’ parameter. This allows unauthenticated attackers to access and load arbitrary translation files. In cases where an attacker is able to upload a crafted translation file onto the site, such as via an upload form, this could be also used to perform a Cross-Site Scripting attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-52274 webapps php

Milad karimi · 2025-04-22

WordPress Core 6.2 - Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`6.2.1+dfsg1-1`
sid	Fixed	`6.2.1+dfsg1-1`
forky	Fixed	`6.2.1+dfsg1-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.7.11+dfsg1-0+deb11u1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.1.6+dfsg1-0+deb12u1`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2745

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.