Detections
Analytics
CVE-2025-8562
medium
Description
The Custom Query Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 0.4.0 via the 'lens' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
References
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-query-shortcode/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3348818/
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/custom-query-shortcode/tags/0.4.0/init.php
https://github.com/peterhebert/custom-query-shortcode/pull/1