CVE-2026-11367
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk41th percentile — higher than 41% of all known CVEs
Summary
The PixMagix – WordPress Image Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to and including 1.7.2 via the move_image_on_server function. This allows authenticated attackers with author-level access or above to write files with attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations on the server.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can place a malicious file (e.g., a backdoor) in a publicly accessible directory, leading to full compromise of the WordPress site and potentially the entire server.
Recommendation
Immediately update the PixMagix plugin to the latest available version. If an update is not possible, temporarily disable the plugin or restrict author-level permissions for image editing.
Original NVD description (English source)
The PixMagix – WordPress Image Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.2 via the move_image_on_server function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to write files with attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations on the server. The unsanitized 'layers[].id' parameter is concatenated into a filesystem path and passed to PHP's copy() function, allowing traversal sequences (e.g. '../../') to escape the intended upload directory and write attacker-supplied file contents to arbitrary paths accessible by the web server process. The save_template REST endpoint is gated by the create_projects permission (edit_pixmagix + upload_files), which Author-level users hold by default after plugin activation, making this exploitable by any Author on sites running PixMagix.