CVE-2026-9197

FAUCET Score

The Smart Slider 3 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.1.36 via the replaceHTMLImage function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

First published: Jun 6, 2026Last modified: Jun 6, 2026

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 0, <= 3.5.1.36CPE match	cpe:2.3:a:nextendweb:smart_slider_3::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

1.2

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.60%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

45.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0060 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 3,562 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/smart-slider-3/trunk/Nextend/SmartSlider3/Application/Admin/Slider/ControllerSlider.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/smart-slider-3/trunk/Nextend/SmartSlider3/BackupSlider/ExportSlider.php

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset

wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/059c2d6d-1296-4463-96ae-a95ba7dad70a