CVE-2025-14829 (GCVE-0-2025-14829)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 06:00 – Updated: 2026-01-13 14:40
VLAI?
Title
e-xact-hosted-payment <= 2.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion
Summary
The E-xact | Hosted Payment | WordPress plugin through 2.0 is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server.
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/872569bc-16fb-42… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown E-xact | Hosted Payment | Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0 (semver)
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Credits
Khaled Alenazi (Nxploited) WPScan
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