CVE-2023-2745 Information

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.

Reference

https://wordpress.org/news/2023/05/wordpress-6-2-1-maintenance-security-release/ https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/edcf46b6-368e-49c0-b2c3-99bf6e2d358f?source=cve https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=55765%40%2F&new=55765%40%2F&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172426/WordPress-Core-6.2-XSS-CSRF-Directory-Traversal.html