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Kingsoft WPS Office Path Traversal

Kingsoft WPS Office

Kingsoft WPS Office contains a path traversal vulnerability in promecefpluginhost.exe on Windows that allows an attacker to load an arbitrary Windows library. Added to the CISA KEV catalog on 2024-09-03.

Why this severity: CVSS 9.3 (v4.0, CNA), actively exploited (CISA KEV)

Started: Aug 15, 2024
Closed: Sep 3, 2024
CVE: CVE-2024-7262

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Updated Sep 3, 2024

Affected

See vendor advisory (versions are not listed in the KEV record)

Fixed in

See vendor advisory linked in sources

Timeline2

Sep 3, 2024
CISA added CVE-2024-7262 to the KEV catalog (federal deadline 2024-09-24)
Source
Aug 15, 2024
CVE-2024-7262 published
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Advisories2

Notes & caveats

Derived from the CISA KEV JSON feed (catalogVersion 2026.10.21); CVSS from the CVE record (cveawg.mitre.org). startedAt is the CVE publication date when it fell in 2024 before the KEV listing, else the KEV dateAdded; exploitation may have begun earlier. closedAt is the KEV listing date (a fix or mitigation was available then unless noted).

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