philsbury Age Gate Plugin up to 3.5.3 on WordPress lang path traversal

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in philsbury Age Gate Plugin up to 3.5.3 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument lang results in path traversal. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-2505. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in philsbury Age Gate Plugin up to 3.5.3 on WordPress. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument lang with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Age Gate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local PHP File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.3 via the 'lang' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary PHP files on the server, allowing the execution of code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where images and other “safe” file types can be uploaded and included.

The weakness was released by Michael Mazzolini. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-2505 since 03/18/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/20/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

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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• philsbury

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• Age Gate Plugin

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• 3.5.0
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3

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