CVE-2026-15979CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2026-15979

High · published August 5, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
68.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01219 · 68.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-08-05T18:17Z
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 AUG 13:26Z
    Content Egg <= 11.3.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Deletion
    cvelistv5