CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-15979

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.77%

53th percentile - higher than 53% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Content Egg plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. Insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field allows authenticated attackers with author-level access or above to delete arbitrary files on the server.

Risk Assessment

Potential deletion of critical system or application files, leading to service disruption or even remote code execution.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Content Egg plugin to the latest version and restrict author permissions if possible.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field within the cegg_data post metadata: the value passes only through wp_strip_all_tags() (which does not strip path traversal sequences), is stored directly in post meta, and is later concatenated without normalization into a filesystem path in getFullImgPath() before being passed to PHP's unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS