shahinurislam Career Section Plugin up to 1.6 on WordPress appform_options_page_html path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in shahinurislam Career Section Plugin up to 1.6 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is the function appform_options_page_html. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-14868. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability has been found in shahinurislam Career Section Plugin up to 1.6 on WordPress and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function appform_options_page_html. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The Career Section plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Deletion in all versions up to, and including, 1.6. This is due to missing nonce validation and insufficient file path validation on the delete action in the 'appform_options_page_html' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The weakness was disclosed by Ivan Cese. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-14868 since 12/18/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/16/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-209493). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• shahinurislam

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• Career Section Plugin

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6

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