Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-3812

High

Published: 17 May 2025

Published
17 May 2025
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0218 84.7th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-3812 is a high-severity External Control of File Name or Path (CWE-73) vulnerability in Wordfence (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

The WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the qcld_openai_delete_training_file() function in all versions up to and including 13.6.2. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025-3812 with a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.1 and is associated with CWE-73.

Authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access and above can exploit the issue over the network to delete arbitrary files on the server. Successful exploitation can readily result in remote code execution when critical files such as wp-config.php are removed.

Advisories and additional technical details are available from Wordfence and the vendor at the referenced URLs. The EPSS score has remained flat at 0.0218 with no material increase observed after disclosure.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The WPBot Pro Wordpress Chatbot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the qcld_openai_delete_training_file() function in all versions up to, and including, 13.6.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with…

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Subscriber-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php).

CWE(s)
CWE-73

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

Wordfence
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inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-73

Rejects externally supplied file or resource identifiers that fail validity checks.

References