{"id":78535,"date":"2026-05-16T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2021-47977-wordpress-anti-malware-security-bruteforce-firewall-4-20-59-directory-traversal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:28:13","slug":"cve-2021-47977-wordpress-anti-malware-security-bruteforce-firewall-4-20-59-directory-traversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2021-47977-wordpress-anti-malware-security-bruteforce-firewall-4-20-59-directory-traversal\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2021-47977 &#8211; WordPress Anti-Malware Security Bruteforce Firewall 4.20.59 Directory Traversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2021-47977<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 16, 2026, 3:28 p.m. | 29\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :WordPress Plugin Anti-Malware Security and Bruteforce Firewall 4.20.59 contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the file parameter. Attackers can send requests to the duplicator_download action via admin-ajax.php with path traversal sequences to access sensitive system files outside the intended directory.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.7 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2021-47977 Published : May 16, 2026, 3:28 p.m. | 29\u00a0minutes ago Description :WordPress Plugin Anti-Malware Security and Bruteforce Firewall 4.20.59 contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the file parameter. Attackers can send requests to the duplicator_download action via admin-ajax.php with path traversal sequences to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}