CVE-2014-8606

MEDIUM 4.0CVE-2014-8606 · Published 10/06/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-8606 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.0) vulnerability affecting xcloner (xcloner).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.0%, higher than 93.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xcloner xcloner	`= 3.1.1= 3.5.1`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the XCloner plugin 3.1.1 for WordPress and 3.5.1 for Joomla! allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the file parameter in a json_return action in the xcloner_show page to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

References

vapid.dhs.org/advisories/wordpress/plugins/Xcloner-v3.1.1 · Exploit
vapid.dhs.org/advisory.php · Exploit

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