CVE-2025-23422

High

Published: 24 January 2025

Published

24 January 2025

Modified

23 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0018 40.0th percentile

Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-23422 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 40.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); 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-2025-23422 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory vulnerability, classified under CWE-22 (Path Traversal), in the moaluko Store Locator WordPress plugin (store-locator). This flaw allows PHP Local File Inclusion and affects all versions from n/a through 3.98.10. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating high severity due to its potential for significant impact despite requiring user interaction and high attack complexity.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network by tricking a user into performing an action, such as interacting with a maliciously crafted request. Successful exploitation enables PHP Local File Inclusion, potentially allowing the attacker to access or include arbitrary local files on the server, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Mitigation details are available in the Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/store-locator/vulnerability/wordpress-store-locator-plugin-3-98-10-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. Security practitioners should update to a patched version if available and review plugin configurations for path handling.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3170

Vulnerability details

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in moaluko Store Locator store-locator allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Store Locator: from n/a through <= 3.98.10.

CWE(s): CWE-22

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.

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T1005 Data from Local System Collection

Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.

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Why these techniques?

Path traversal LFI in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the web application (T1190) and reading arbitrary local system files (T1005).

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