{"id":"CVE-2019-14794","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2019-14794","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:44:27.946Z","title":"The Meta Box plugin before 4.16.2 for WordPress mishandles the uploading of files to custom folders.","description":"The Meta Box plugin before 4.16.2 for WordPress mishandles the uploading of files to custom folders.","published":"2019-08-09T14:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:19:02.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-19"],"affected":["metabox/meta box"],"epss":{"score":0.01415,"percentile":0.72611,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://metabox.io/changelog/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://metabox.io/changelog/","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14794","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}