CVE-2021-24549

4.9 mediumEPSS 1.6%

Medium (4.9) in aceide project aceide. EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AceIDE WordPress plugin through 2.6.2 does not sanitise or validate the user input which is appended to system paths before using it in various actions, such as to read arbitrary files from the server. This allows high privilege users such as administrator to access any file on the web server outside of the blog directory via a path traversal attack.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

4.9 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 75% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2021-08-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

aceide_project:aceide

References

https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-aceide/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c594abaf-b152-448c-8a20-9b3267fe547a
https://codevigilant.com/disclosure/2021/wp-plugin-aceide/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c594abaf-b152-448c-8a20-9b3267fe547a

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