TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery plugin for WordPress before 1.1.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers…
CVE-2012-20002 · GHSA-58pf-x5g7-jcfh · EUVD-2012-6610 · published 20 Oct 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 8.7 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
Is your app affected by CVE-2012-20002?
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Who is affected
- James Charlesworth TinyMCE Thumbnail Gallery: 0.10 <1.1.0
How to check
- Find out whether you run the affected product and which version, then compare it with the versions above.
How to fix
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- Apply the vendor's update or mitigation from the references below. If there is none yet, limit exposure of the affected service until there is.
- If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.
The advisory
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.
Check your whole app
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References
- packetstorm.news/files/id/113417/
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19022
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/4a49b023-c1c9-4cc4-a2fd-af5f911bb400
- github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/vulnerabilities/wordpress/wp-tinymce-lfi.yaml
- wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-thumbnail-gallery/
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/tinymce-thumbnail-gallery-wordpress-plugin-1.1.0-path-traversal-via-download-image-php
Merged from ENISA EUVD. Last updated 23 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON