CVE-2025-69377

High

Published: 20 February 2026

Published

20 February 2026

Modified

15 April 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0007 21.8th percentile

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

Summary

CVE-2025-69377 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.7 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 21.8th 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-2025-69377 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability, classified under CWE-22, in the WordPress plugin User Extra Fields (wp-user-extra-fields) by vanquish. This issue affects all versions from n/a through 17.0 and was published on 2026-02-20.

The vulnerability enables exploitation over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) such as an authenticated user, and no user interaction (UI:N). Attackers can achieve arbitrary file deletion, leading to high availability impact (A:H) and a scope change (S:C), with no effects on confidentiality or integrity. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 7.7.

Patchstack provides details on this arbitrary file deletion vulnerability in their advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/wp-user-extra-fields/vulnerability/wordpress-user-extra-fields-plugin-17-0-arbitrary-file-deletion-vulnerability-2?_s_id=cve.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-207964

Vulnerability details

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in vanquish User Extra Fields wp-user-extra-fields allows Path Traversal.This issue affects User Extra Fields: from n/a through <= 17.0.

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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T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth

Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity.

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Why these techniques?

Path traversal in public-facing WP plugin directly enables remote exploitation (T1190) and arbitrary file deletion (T1070.004) for availability impact.

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