CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Called exploited 3 days after disclosure.
Measured from the CVE publication date to the earliest of 1 KEV catalogue that list it.
The life of this vulnerability
- CVE published
- First KEV listing3d
- Last sightingsame day
Gaps are compressed to equal steps. The elapsed time is printed under each.
Which catalogues call it exploited
- CISA KEVUS federaldoes not list it
- EUVDENISA, European Uniondoes not list it
- VulnCheck KEVcommercial researchlisted Jul 14, 2026
- CIRCLaggregator, mirrors the abovedoes not list it
This rests on a single catalogue. No second catalogue corroborates the claim that it is being exploited. CIRCL is an aggregator and is not counted.
Public exploitation evidence
- reported exploitationpatchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/w3-total-cache/vuln
1 public report collected from VulnCheck and CIRCL, first on Jul 14, 2026. Each links to its original source. We have not verified them.
Description
The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.4 via the setupSources function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. Exploitation requires enabling manual minify mode and supplying a manual-format minify filename so that the hash is empty and the f_array[] entries are not overwritten before reaching setupSources().