CVE-2012-20002

HIGH 7.5

TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery WordPress Plugin < 1.1.0 Path Traversal via download-image.php

CVSS Score

7.5

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-22
Vendor	james charlesworth
Product	tinymce thumbnail gallery
Published	Oct 20, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Affected Versions

James Charlesworth / TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery

0.10 < 1.1.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

packetstorm.news: https://packetstorm.news/files/id/113417/ exploit-db.com: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19022 wpscan.com: https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/4a49b023-c1c9-4cc4-a2fd-af5f911bb400 github.com: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/wp-tinymce-lfi.yaml wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-thumbnail-gallery/ vulncheck.com: https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tinymce-thumbnail-gallery-wordpress-plugin-1.1.0-path-traversal-via-download-image-php

Credits

Sammy FORGIT 🔍 The Shadowserver Foundation