{"id":68758,"date":"2025-08-25T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8562-wordpress-custom-query-shortcode-path-traversal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:01:57","slug":"cve-2025-8562-wordpress-custom-query-shortcode-path-traversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8562-wordpress-custom-query-shortcode-path-traversal\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8562 &#8211; WordPress Custom Query Shortcode Path Traversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-8562<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 25, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 19\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>The Custom Query Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 0.4.0 via the &#8216;lens&#8217; parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 6.5 | MEDIUM<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-2025-8562 Published : Aug. 25, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 19\u00a0minutes ago Description : The Custom Query Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 0.4.0 via the &#8216;lens&#8217; parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the &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-68758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68758","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=68758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}