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WordPress Plugin: publitio: CVE-2025-31800: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 3, 2025
Added
Sep 12, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Publitio plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Solution

publitio-plugin-cve-2025-31800
Title
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