CVE-2026-17602

Summary

The SSL Zen — SSL Certificate Installer & HTTPS Redirects plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 4.7.42 via the 'file_name' parameter parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-22: CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6bf4cc39-3a26-462d-a540-2d53e53dfa66?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.42/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L496
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.42/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L492
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.42/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L54
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.12/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L496
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.12/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L492
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.12/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L54
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3701590%40ssl-zen&new=3701590%40ssl-zen

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