Dirt paths can be placed in situations that intersect with entity hitboxes causing the said entity to teleport upwards

Note:

This only works with path blocks.

Update:

It works with any non solid blocks instead of the walls.

You get teleported because the dirt path turns into dirt. Generally, when a dirt path turns into dirt, all entities inside it are teleported on top, due to the MC-120611 fix. What’s strange here is that you can place the dirt path block inside yourself. As noted in other comments, this doesn't happen with farmland. Placing the block doesn’t play the sound or hand animation, similar to MC-129112. I’d suggest changing the report to "dirt path can be placed inside entities at locations where it immediately turns into dirt."

It does NOT work on all solid blocks. There are some like Cherry blossoms (you might have to use tick freeze or setblock command) and Glow Lichen that it doesn't work with. It DOES however work on Cacti and cobwebs and chests and I could go on and on (there are about 40 block types it works on)

Try doing this with a minecart at the coords where you'll place the path block to find another glitch