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CVE-2024-11585: WP Hide & Security Enhancer <= 2.5.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Contents Deletion

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The WP Hide & Security Enhancer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file contents deletion due to a missing authorization and insufficient file path validation in the file-process.php in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can break the site or lead to data loss.

Affected products

• WP Hide & Security Enhancer: through 2.5.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-hide-security-enhancer/tags/2.5.1/router/file-process.php#L43
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/43c7056e-39d8-467e-92ec-33a31e5dafc9?source=cve

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