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CVE-2025-11704: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Elegance Menu plugin for WordPress contains a Local File Inclusion vulnerability (CVE-2025-11704) discovered and disclosed on November 4, 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.9. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (High) (NVD, Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the 'elegance-menu' attribute of the elegance-menu shortcode, which allows authenticated users with Contributor-level access or higher to include and execute arbitrary .php files on the server. This vulnerability is classified as CWE-98 (Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program) (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows attackers to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, and potentially achieve code execution in cases where .php file types can be uploaded and included. The high CVSS score of 7.5 indicates significant potential impact on the affected systems (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been temporarily closed as of October 30, 2025, pending a full security review. Site administrators using the Elegance Menu plugin should consider disabling it until a patched version is available (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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