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CVE-2025-14867: Flashcard Plugin for WordPress <= 0.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-01-07 · updated 2026-10-07
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The Flashcard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 0.9 via the 'source' attribute of the 'flashcard' shortcode. 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.

Affected products

• liangshao Flashcard Plugin for WordPress: through 0.9

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/flashcard/tags/0.9/flashcard.php?marks=73,109#L73
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f4fcc6e5-1f90-41e7-8d5a-2bfe8cbf46fa?source=cve

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