CVE-2026-15979

Content Egg <= 11.3.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Deletion

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: August 5, 2026 at 01:26 PM UTC
Updated: August 12, 2026 at 09:15 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorContent Egg

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field within the cegg_data post metadata: the value passes only through wp_strip_all_tags() (which does not strip path traversal sequences), is stored directly in post meta, and is later concatenated without normalization into a filesystem path in getFullImgPath() before being passed to PHP's unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

60%
v ≤ 11.3.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

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CVSS

8.1HIGHWordfence
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-22

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