WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

Re:WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to cond... by AlienRobot on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @12:33PM (#49818662)

Jesus. I don't think WP is nice to use, but people are saying WP is crap because someone else made pearcmd.php that allows you to run arbitrary commands, and then a third someone else included that in the default PHP docker image. In this case all PHP CMS's are a directory traversal bug away from this CVE.

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Re:WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to cond... by vntok on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:31AM (#49828267)

Indeed. Then again, it's on WordPress not to have directory traversal flaws in their core functions...

- especially the functions that are explicitely exposed to be used on front-facing interfaces (ie: templating functions).

- and especially when the security flaw in question was not only raised 9 years ago but described in details on the official documentation page of the affected function

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