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CVE-2025-7721: JoomSport <= 5.7.3 - Unauthenticated Directory Traversal to Local File Inclusion

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: 2025-10-03 · updated 2026-10-12
• Weakness: CWE-98

Description

The JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 5.7.3 via the task parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where .php file types can be uploaded and included.

Affected products

• beardev JoomSport – for Sports: Team & League, Football, Hockey & more: through 5.7.3

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/joomsport-sports-league-results-management/trunk/sportleague/base/wordpress/classes/class-jsport-controller.php#L74
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3371353/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4f3900c7-2acb-4031-9854-b0b13e172e1f?source=cve

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