CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2025-8562
Medium (6.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://github.com/peterhebert/custom-query-shortcode/pull/1
- https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/custom-query-shortcode/tags/0.4.0/init.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3348818/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-query-shortcode/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e37c664-76ed-4ede-88fd-e41b9969685f?source=cve