A vulnerability was found in WP Compress Plugin up to 6.10.33 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component CSS Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.