NVD HIGH: CVE-2017-20287 — Javo Spot theme for WordPress before 3.0.0 contains a path traversal vulnerabili...

Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 11:17 AM UTC·Source: NIST NVD

Updated: Tuesday, October 27, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC

Executive Summary

Javo Spot theme for WordPress before 3.0.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the fn parameter of the jvfrm_spot_get_json AJAX action. Attackers can send GET requests to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with fn set to ../../wp-config.php to retrieve database credentials and secret keys. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the S

Analysis

Indicators of Compromise (1)

CVE (1)

CVE-2017-20287

NVD MITRE CVE

Source Attribution

Originally published by NIST NVD on Oct 22, 2026. Verified by: NIST.

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