CVE-2024-7262 (GCVE-0-2024-7262)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-15 14:24 – Updated: 2025-10-21 22:55 X_Known Exploited Vulnerability- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://www.wps.com/whatsnew/pc/20240422/ | |
| https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit… | government-resource |
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kingsoft | WPS Office |
Affected:
12.2.0.13110 , < 12.2.0.16412
(custom)
|
|
| kingsoft | wps_office |
Affected:
12.2.0.13110 , < 12.2.0.13489
(custom)
cpe:2.3:a:kingsoft:wps_office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Vendor Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 80%
Source: cisa-kev
Details
| Cwes | CWE-22 |
|---|---|
| Feed | CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog |
| Product | WPS Office |
| Due Date | 2024-09-24 |
| Date Added | 2024-09-03 |
| Vendorproject | Kingsoft |
| Vulnerabilityname | Kingsoft WPS Office Path Traversal Vulnerability |
| Knownransomwarecampaignuse | Unknown |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: previdian
Details
| Feed | Previdian (previdian.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | Arbitrary Code Execution in WPS Office |
| Cve Id | CVE-2024-7262 |
| Vendor | Kingsoft |
| Ghsa Id | None |
| Product | WPS Office |
| Added Date | 2024-09-03T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 9.3 |
| Epss Score | 0.02937 |
| Previous Ids | |
| Cvss Severity | CRITICAL |
| Virtual Patch | False |
| Cvss Estimated | False |
| Epss Percentile | 0.86622 |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Vulnerability Id | CVE-2024-7262 |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | False |
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.