Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-25162

High

Published: 03 March 2025

Published
03 March 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 0.0049 66.1th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-25162 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 in the top 33.9% 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 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-25162 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory vulnerability (CWE-22), enabling Absolute Path Traversal in the kutu62 Sports Rankings and Lists WordPress plugin (sports-rankings-lists). This flaw affects all versions from n/a through 1.0.2, allowing attackers to bypass directory restrictions and access files outside the intended path.

With 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), the vulnerability is exploitable remotely over the network with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and no user interaction. Unauthenticated attackers can achieve high confidentiality impact by reading sensitive files on the affected server, while integrity and availability remain unaffected.

Patchstack documents this issue in their vulnerability database for the Sports Rankings and Lists plugin.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in kutu62 Sports Rankings and Lists sports-rankings-lists allows Absolute Path Traversal.This issue affects Sports Rankings and Lists: from n/a through <= 1.0.2.

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 remote file reads outside intended directories, directly supporting exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and collection of sensitive data from the local file 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

Directly prevents path traversal by validating user-supplied pathname inputs to ensure they do not escape restricted directories in the sports-rankings-lists plugin.

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match
prevent

Enforces logical access restrictions on files, countering the improper limitation that allows absolute path traversal to sensitive files outside intended paths.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
prevent

Requires timely identification, reporting, and correction of the specific path traversal flaw in the WordPress plugin versions through 1.0.2.

References