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CVE-2025-10040: WP Import – Ultimate CSV XML Importer for WordPress <= 7.27 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) FTP/SFTP Credential Exposure

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

The WP Import – Ultimate CSV XML Importer for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the 'get_ftp_details' AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 7.27. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to retrieve a configured set of SFTP/FTP credentials.

Affected products

• smackcoders WP Ultimate CSV Importer – Import CSV, XML & Excel into WordPress: through 7.27

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/tags/7.26/uploadModules/FtpUpload.php#L231
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3357936/wp-ultimate-csv-importer/trunk/uploadModules/FtpUpload.php
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9bcdcaa4-c492-4d79-8d18-44802abd02e7?source=cve

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