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CVE-2017-2245
Directory traversal vulnerability in Shortcodes Ultimate prior to version 4.10.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Shortcodes Ultimate prior to version 4.10.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jpcert
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.1 | Medium5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- Directory traversal
- CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs
Affected products
Vladimir Anokhin · Shortcodes Ultimate
- affected prior to version 4.10.0
References (4)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1684377/#file217 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 99495 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- JVN#63249051 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/#developers (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)
- 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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