Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-22782

Critical

Published: 15 January 2025

Published
15 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0044 63.6th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-22782 is a critical-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 36.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-22782 is an Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability (CWE-434) in the Web Ready Now WR Price List Manager For Woocommerce WordPress plugin (wr-price-list-for-woocommerce). This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.8 and allows attackers to upload a web shell to the web server. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.9 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), marking it as critical.

An authenticated attacker with low privileges, such as a standard WordPress user, can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low attack complexity and no user interaction. Exploitation enables the upload of a web shell, resulting in remote code execution (RCE) with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, along with a change in scope.

The Patchstack advisory provides further details on this remote code execution vulnerability in WR Price List Manager For Woocommerce version 1.0.8: https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wr-price-list-for-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-wr-price-list-manager-for-woocommerce-plugin-1-0-8-remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in Web Ready Now WR Price List Manager For Woocommerce wr-price-list-for-woocommerce allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects WR Price List Manager For Woocommerce: from n/a through <=…

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1.0.8.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence
Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.
Why these techniques?

The vulnerability enables exploitation of a public-facing web application (WordPress plugin) via unrestricted file upload, directly facilitating deployment of a web shell for RCE.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly remediates the unrestricted file upload flaw in the vulnerable WordPress plugin by requiring timely identification, reporting, and patching.

prevent

Prevents exploitation of the unrestricted upload vulnerability by enforcing validation of file inputs to block dangerous types like web shells.

preventdetect

Mitigates impact of uploaded web shells by scanning for, quarantining, or blocking malicious code execution on the web server.

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