CVE-2026-15979

high

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 '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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc1600b9-b590-47ca-b2d9-d521381da541?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3610612%40content-egg%2Ftrunk%2Fapplication%2Fhelpers%2FImageHelper.php&old=3514579%40content-egg%2Ftrunk%2Fapplication%2Fhelpers%2FImageHelper.php

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/helpers/ImageHelper.php#L149

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L200

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L161

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L372

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/helpers/ImageHelper.php#L149

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L200

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L161

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L372

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-05

Updated: 2026-08-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00773