CVE-2025-22782
Published: 15 January 2025
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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2992
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.
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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
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.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly remediates the unrestricted file upload flaw in the vulnerable WordPress plugin by requiring timely identification, reporting, and patching.
Prevents exploitation of the unrestricted upload vulnerability by enforcing validation of file inputs to block dangerous types like web shells.
Mitigates impact of uploaded web shells by scanning for, quarantining, or blocking malicious code execution on the web server.