CVE-2014-4940
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Tera Charts (tera-charts) plugin 0.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to read…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 19.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Tera Charts (tera-charts) plugin 0.1 for WordPress allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fn parameter to (1) charts/treemap.php or (2) charts/zoomabletreemap.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Nuclei templates1 template
- WordPress Plugin Tera Charts - Local File Inclusion (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2014/CVE-2014-4940.yamlSeverity medium
Exploit-DB2 entries
- WordPress Plugin Tera Charts (tera-charts) - '/charts/treemap.php?fn' Directory Traversal (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39256webapps, phppublished 28 May 2014Verified
- WordPress Plugin Tera Charts (tera-charts) - '/charts/zoomabletreemap.php?fn' Directory Traversal (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39257webapps, phppublished 28 May 2014Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 19.3% · top 2.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
2
- http://codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-tera-chart-local-file-inclusion/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=851874%40tera-charts&old=799253%40tera-charts&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-4857 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-4940)Record last updated .