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CVE-2025-12496: Zephyr Project Manager <= 3.3.203 - Authenticated (Custom+) Arbitrary File Read And Server-Side Request Forgery

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-17 · updated 2026-09-28
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Zephyr Project Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.203 via the `file` parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Custom-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information. On a servers that have `allow_url_fopen` enabled, this issue allows for Server-Side Request Forgery

Affected products

• Dylan James Zephyr Project Manager: through 3.3.203

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zephyr-project-manager/trunk/includes/Base/AjaxHandler.php#L3506
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/zephyr-project-manager/trunk/includes/Core/Projects.php#L1870
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2b4b0640-d61a-4969-a5c0-d2d709fb56d0?source=cve

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