CVE-2025-14868 (GCVE-0-2025-14868)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-16 07:39 – Updated: 2026-04-16 12:52
VLAI?
Title
Career Section <= 1.6 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Arbitrary File Deletion
Summary
The Career Section plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Deletion in all versions up to, and including, 1.6. This is due to missing nonce validation and insufficient file path validation on the delete action in the 'appform_options_page_html' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
shahinurislam Career Section Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.6 (semver)
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Credits
Ivan Cese
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