Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-24569

High

Published: 03 February 2025

Published
03 February 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:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0010 28.1th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24569 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 28.1th 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-2025-24569 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability, corresponding to CWE-22, in the RedefiningTheWeb PDF Generator Addon for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin, specifically the pdf-generator-addon-for-elementor-page-builder component. This flaw affects all versions up to and including 1.7.5, allowing attackers to traverse path restrictions.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating high severity due to network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges or user interaction, and unchanged scope with high confidentiality impact. Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit it to read arbitrary files on the affected server.

Patchstack's advisory documents this as an arbitrary file read vulnerability in PDF Generator Addon for Elementor Page Builder version 1.7.5, with details available in their vulnerability database.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in RedefiningTheWeb PDF Generator Addon for Elementor Page Builder pdf-generator-addon-for-elementor-page-builder allows Path Traversal.This issue affects PDF Generator Addon for Elementor Page Builder: from n/a through <= 1.7.5.

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 in public-facing WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated remote arbitrary file read, directly mapping to exploitation of public-facing apps (T1190) and collection of data from local system (T1005).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Requires validation of information inputs, directly preventing path traversal by rejecting invalid pathnames with sequences like '../' in the PDF Generator Addon.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws, directly remediating this specific path traversal vulnerability via patching the affected WordPress plugin versions up to 1.7.5.

SC-7 Boundary Protection partial match
preventdetect

Boundary protection at external interfaces, such as web application firewalls, can inspect and block path traversal attempts targeting the vulnerable plugin.

References