CVE-2025-10488 (GCVE-0-2025-10488)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-25 06:49 – Updated: 2025-10-27 15:54
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Summary
The Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file move due to insufficient file path validation in the add_listing_action AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 8.4.8. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to move arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is moved (such as wp-config.php).
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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
wpwax Directorist: AI-Powered Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings Affected: * , ≤ 8.4.8 (semver)
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Credits
Arkadiusz Hydzik
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