🛡️ CVE-2026-15979

🟠 CVSS 8.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
8.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field within the cegg_data post metadata: the value passes only through wp_strip_all_tags() (which does not strip path traversal sequences), is stored directly in post meta, and is later concatenated without normalization into a filesystem path in getFullImgPath() before being passed to PHP's unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-15979 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2026-15979 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 5 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org
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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-05
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown

References

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