The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress, versions prior to 2.10.6, is vulnerable to a path traversal attack. This vulnerability allows users with the Author role or higher to import media that can copy arbitrary server-readable files into a publicly served directory, making them accessible for unauthenticated retrieval. The vulnerability was reported by WPScan and documented in the CVE Program record and [truncated]
The W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin before 2.10.5 does not properly validate the request path it uses to build cache file names, allowing unauthenticated attackers to write a file into any existing directory on the server, inside or outside the web root, overwriting whatever occupies the target name. On Apache, the same flaw overwrites the site's .htaccess files, which breaks the site and can strip harden [truncated]
