CVE-2025-10897
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WooCommerce Designer Pro theme for WordPress contains an arbitrary file read vulnerability (CVE-2025-10897) affecting all versions up to and including 1.9.28. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on October 31, 2025 (NVD, Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory - Path Traversal). It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6 (High) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N. This indicates that the vulnerability can be exploited over the network, requires low attack complexity, needs no privileges or user interaction, has changed scope, and can result in high confidentiality impact (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on the server. Of particular concern is the potential exposure of database credentials through unauthorized access to the wp-config.php file (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should immediately update their WooCommerce Designer Pro theme to a version newer than 1.9.28 when available (NVD).

Additional resources


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