CVE-2025-24650

Critical

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 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0020 42.3th percentile

Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-24650 is a critical-severity Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434) vulnerability in Themefic Tourfic. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 42.3th 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).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Directly mitigates unrestricted file uploads by validating uploaded files to block dangerous types like web shells in the Tourfic plugin.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Requires timely remediation of the specific flaw in Tourfic versions through <=2.15.3 to prevent arbitrary file upload exploitation.

SI-3 Malicious Code Protection good match

preventdetect

Implements malicious code protection mechanisms to scan for and block web shells uploaded via the Tourfic vulnerability.

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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T1505.003 Web Shell Persistence

Adversaries may backdoor web servers with web shells to establish persistent access to systems.

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Why these techniques?

Arbitrary file upload vuln in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables web shell deployment (T1100) via exploitation of the application (T1190).

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

NVD Description

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in Themefic Tourfic tourfic allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects Tourfic: from n/a through <= 2.15.3.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-24650 is an Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability (CWE-434) in the Themefic Tourfic WordPress plugin. This issue affects Tourfic versions from n/a through 2.15.3 and allows attackers to upload a web shell to the web server. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Exploitation requires network access, low complexity, and high privileges such as administrator-level access, with no user interaction needed. A successful attack changes scope and achieves high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, enabling attackers to gain remote code execution and full control over the web server via the uploaded web shell.

The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/tourfic/vulnerability/wordpress-tourfic-plugin-2-15-3-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details this arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the Tourfic plugin version 2.15.3.