The WordPress File Upload plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 4.24.11 via wfu_file_downloader.php. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read or delete files outside of the originally intended directory. Successful exploitation requires the targeted WordPress installation to be using PHP 7.4 or earlier.
CVE-2024-9047
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2024-10-12. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.
Also known asEUVD-2024-49689 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 93%
- Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 96EG Risk 96/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation93% × 40%FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.Automatability100% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 93%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- 93% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.
No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
October 12, 2024
Last Modified
March 12, 2025
References (2)
- security@wordfencehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3164449/wp-file-uploadPatch
- security@wordfencehttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/554a314c-9e8e-4691-9792-d086790ef40f?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 15× in last 7d / 48× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 84 of 88 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 16 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 4 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 13:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 13:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-11-01 11:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 11:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-31 09:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-30 07:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-29 05:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 05:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-28 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-28 03:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 03:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-27 01:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 01:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-25 19:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-25 16:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-24 16:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 16:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-23 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-22 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-22 12:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 12:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-21 10:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 10:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-20 08:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-19 06:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 04:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 04:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-17 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-17 02:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-16 00:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-13 14:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 17:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 12:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-wphm-3gx3-274q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 20:59 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-10-06 15:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
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- 2026-07-23 02:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 93% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits
(4 references)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (3 GitHub PoCs), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. No release with the fix is confirmed, so defenders should restrict or isolate affected systems accordingly until one is applied.
- GitHub PoCNxploited/CVE-2024-9047-ExploitPublished Jan 25, 2025
Exploit for WordPress File Upload Plugin - All versions up to 4.24.11 are vulnerable.
Open source ↗ - Nucleihttp/cves/2024/CVE-2024-9047.yamlPublished Jan 15, 2025
WordPress File Upload <= 4.24.11 - Arbitrary File Read
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCverylazytech/CVE-2024-9047Published Jan 8, 2025
POC - WordPress File Upload plugin, in the wfu_file_downloader.php file before version <= 4.24.11
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCiSee857/CVE-2024-9047-PoCPublished Dec 25, 2024
WordPress File Upload插件任意文件读取漏洞(CVE-2024-9047)批量检测脚本
Open source ↗
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