Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-6947

High

Published: 10 December 2024

Published
10 December 2024
Modified
24 February 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0463 89.5th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-6947 is a high-severity Path Traversal: '/../filedir' (CWE-25) vulnerability in Fooplugins Foogallery. Its CVSS base score is 7.7 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 10.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Best WordPress Gallery Plugin – FooGallery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.26. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor level or higher to read the contents of…

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arbitrary folders on the server, which can contain sensitive information such as folder structure.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

fooplugins
foogallery
≤ 2.4.27

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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