vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: revslider: CVE-2025-9217: 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
Aug 28, 2025
Added
Sep 1, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 6.7.36 via the 'used_svg' and 'used_images' parameters. 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

revslider-plugin-cve-2025-9217
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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