CVE-2026-15979

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-22 Path Traversal

Publication date:

05/08/2026

Last modified:

12/08/2026

Description

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 &#39;img_file&#39; 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&#39;s unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site&#39;s server which may make remote code execution possible.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

8.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

CVE-2026-15979

Description

Impact

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