Kingsoft WPS Office Path Traversal Vulnerability
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.
- CVE identifier
- CVE-2024-7262
- Added to KEV
- Sep 3, 2024
- CISA catalog dueDate
- Sep 24, 2024
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Publisher's required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
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Keep the signals separate.
- Ransomware use, as reported by CISA
- Unknown
- CVSS severity
- Not supplied by KEV
- EPSS probability
- 2.94%
EPSS score date: 2026-09-27T12:00:21Z. Percentile: 86.58%. Model version: v2026.06.15.
A dated estimate of exploitation probability over the following 30 days, not a severity score or a probability of a breach in your environment.
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Source notes
While CISA cannot confirm the effectiveness of patches at this time, it is recommended that mitigations be applied per vendor instructions if available. If these instructions cannot be located or if mitigations are unavailable, discontinue the use of the product.; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-7262
Source & freshness
Source updated: Sep 27, 2026, 9:30 PM UTC
Successfully checked: Sep 27, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC
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Automated source record, not an editorial advisory or an independent discovery. No affected or fixed version is inferred, and no organisation-specific risk rating is generated.