{"id":67457,"date":"2025-08-05T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5061-wordpress-import-export-lite-plugin-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:02:48","slug":"cve-2025-5061-wordpress-import-export-lite-plugin-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5061-wordpress-import-export-lite-plugin-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-5061 &#8211; WordPress Import Export Lite Plugin Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-5061<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 5, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 28\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The WP Import Export Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the &#8216;wpie_parse_upload_data&#8217; function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.29. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, and permissions granted by an Administrator, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site&#8217;s server which may make remote code execution possible. The vulnerability was partially patched in version 3.9.29.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 7.5 | HIGH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-5061 Published : Aug. 5, 2025, 8:15 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 28\u00a0minutes ago Description : The WP Import Export Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to missing file type validation in the &#8216;wpie_parse_upload_data&#8217; function in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.29. This makes it possible for authenticated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}