CVE-2025-14868 | shahinurislam Career Section Plugin up to 1.6 on WordPress appform_options_page_html path traversal

VDB-357907 · CVE-2025-14868 · GCVE-0-2025-14868 SHAHINURISLAM CAREER SECTION PLUGIN UP TO 1.6 ON WORDPRESS APPFORM_OPTIONS_PAGE_HTML PATH TRAVERSAL HISTORYDIFFRELATEJSONXMLCTI CVSS Meta Temp Score Current Exploit Price (≈) CTI Interest Score 7.9 $0-$5k 4.52 Summaryinfo A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in shahinurislam Career Section Plugin up to 1.6 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is the function appform_options_page_html. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-14868. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Detailsinfo A vulnerability has been found in shahinurislam Career Section Plugin up to 1.6 on WordPress and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function appform_options_page_html. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is: 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. The weakness was disclosed by Ivan Cese. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-14868 since 12/18/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/16/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK. There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Productinfo Type WordPress Plugin Vendor shahinurislam Name Career Section Plugin Version 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 CPE 2.3info 🔒 🔒 🔒 CPE 2.2info 🔒 🔒 🔒 CVSSv4info VulDB Vector: 🔒 VulDB Reliability: 🔍 CVSSv3info VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0 VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9 VulDB Base Score: 7.3 VulDB Temp Score: 7.1 VulDB Vector: 🔒 VulDB Reliability: 🔍 CNA Base Score: 8.8 CNA Vector (Wordfence): 🔒 CVSSv2info Vector Complexity Authentication Confidentiality Integrity Availability Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock VulDB Base Score: 🔒 VulDB Temp Score: 🔒 VulDB Reliability: 🔍 Exploitinginfo Class: Path traversal CWE: CWE-22 CAPEC: 🔒 ATT&CK: 🔒 Physical: No Local: No Remote: Yes Availability: 🔒 Status: Not defined Price Prediction: 🔍 Current Price Estimation: 🔒 0-Day Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Today Unlock Unlock Unlock Unlock Threat Intelligenceinfo Interest: 🔍 Active Actors: 🔍 Active APT Groups: 🔍 Countermeasuresinfo Recommended: no mitigation known Status: 🔍 0-Day Time: 🔒 Timelineinfo 12/18/2025 CVE reserved 04/16/2026 +118 days Advisory disclosed 04/16/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created 04/16/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update Sourcesinfo Advisory: wordfence.com Researcher: Ivan Cese Status: Not defined CVE: CVE-2025-14868 (🔒) GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-14868 GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-357907 Entryinfo Created: 04/16/2026 10:04 Changes: 04/16/2026 10:04 (65) Complete: 🔍 Cache ID: 99:0DF:101 Discussion No comments yet. Languages: en. Please log in to comment. ◂ PreviousOverviewNext ▸