CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-13492
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-07-09
- Last modified
- 2026-07-10
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
The UsersWP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion in versions up to, and including, 1.2.65. This is due to insufficient validation of file-field values in the UsersWP_Validation::validate_fields() function (which falls through to sanitize_text_field() for fields of type 'file', leaving directory-traversal sequences intact) combined with the UsersWP_Forms::upload_file_remove() AJAX handler building the deletion target from the uploads basedir concatenated with the attacker-controlled metadata value without any realpath canonicalization or uploads-directory boundary check before calling unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server, including wp-config.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/AyeCode/userswp/commit/ddb17ad30ff3384cda85c5f372db30b03bd45ac8 github.com
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userswp/tags/1.2.65/includes/class-forms.php#L1059 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userswp/tags/1.2.65/includes/class-forms.php#L1973 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userswp/tags/1.2.65/includes/class-forms.php#L2320 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userswp/tags/1.2.65/includes/class-forms.php#L2323 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/userswp/tags/1.2.65/includes/class-validation.php#L190 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3590340/userswp plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b6cf6390-480f-44e2-ae36-67e3398add33?source=cve www.wordfence.com