Description
The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field within the cegg_data post metadata: the value passes only through wp_strip_all_tags() (which does not strip path traversal sequences), is stored directly in post meta, and is later concatenated without normalization into a filesystem path in getFullImgPath() before being passed to PHP's unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
References10
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/appl…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3610612%40co…
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc1600b9-b590…
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.1
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 69 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-22
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