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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-12637
CVE-2025-12637:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Elastic Theme Editor plugin for WordPress contains a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-12637) discovered and disclosed on November 10, 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 0.0.3 of the plugin. The security flaw allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to perform arbitrary file uploads on the affected WordPress site's server (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from a dynamic code generation feature in the process_theme function that fails to properly validate file uploads. It has been assigned CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code) and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 HIGH (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating its severe nature (NVD).
Impact
If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could enable attackers to upload arbitrary files to the affected server, potentially leading to remote code execution. The high CVSS score reflects the significant potential impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected systems (NVD).
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