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Health Check & Troubleshooting <= 1.2.3 — Path Traversal

95ad0139-eb12-4c02-95fb-cd19b6a6ab02Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.2.3Update to 1.2.4 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium4.3
CVSS
4.3
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Health Check & Troubleshooting health-check

  1. Affected≤ 1.2.3
  2. Patched in1.2.4

Update to 1.2.4 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.2.3. Version 1.2.4 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Health Check & Troubleshooting.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.2.4, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Health Check & Troubleshooting to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Julien Legras.

The Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 via the POST parameter 'file' where it is used unchecked with 'file_get_contents'. This allows authenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Health Check & Troubleshooting

All 5
More vulnerabilities in Health Check & Troubleshooting
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Low2.7Authenticated (Admin+) Path Traversal
≤1.7.1No patch available
CVE-2025-64253
Medium6.3Cross-Site Request Forgery via health_check_troubleshoot_get_captures
≤1.5.1Update to 1.6.0
CVE-2022-47161
High8.0Cross-Site Request Forgery
≤1.2.3Update to 1.2.4
—
High8.8Missing Authorization Checks
≤1.2.3Update to 1.2.4
—

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CVE-2026-120688
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.3

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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