Sports Rankings and Lists Plugin up to 1.0.2 on WordPress path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Sports Rankings and Lists Plugin up to 1.0.2 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-25162. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sports Rankings and Lists Plugin up to 1.0.2 on WordPress. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in NotFound Sports Rankings and Lists allows Absolute Path Traversal. This issue affects Sports Rankings and Lists: from n/a through 1.0.2.

The weakness was shared by Lvt-tholv2k. The advisory is shared at patchstack.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-25162 since 02/03/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/03/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Sports Rankings and Lists Plugin

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2

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