{"id":"CVE-2026-17602","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-17602","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T10:37:16.187Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2026-09-25T08:16:40.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-25T14:17:18.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@wordfence.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00541,"percentile":0.45285,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-25","score":0.00557,"percentile":0.44087}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.54%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-25T08:16:40.000Z","detail":{"score":"4.9","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-09-25T08:16:40.247Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 4.9)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.12/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L492","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.12/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L496","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.12/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L54","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.42/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L492","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.42/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L496","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ssl-zen/tags/4.7.42/ssl_zen/classes/class.ssl_zen_admin.php#L54","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&old=3701590%40ssl-zen&new=3701590%40ssl-zen","source":"security@wordfence.com"},{"url":"https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6bf4cc39-3a26-462d-a540-2d53e53dfa66?source=cve","source":"security@wordfence.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-17602","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."}