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CVE-2025-12960: Simple CSV Table <= 1.0.1 - Directory Traversal to Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Read

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2025-12-12 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Simple CSV Table plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.1 via the `href` parameter in the `[csv]` shortcode. This is due to insufficient path validation before concatenating user-supplied input to a base directory path. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information such as database credentials and authentication keys.

Affected products

• iworks Simple CSV Table: through 1.0.1

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-csv-table/tags/1.0.1/simple-csv-table.php#L71
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3403210%40simple-csv-table&new=3403210%40simple-csv-table&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4ff9abb4-2b25-4bbb-86b4-fb1ba37e122f?source=cve

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