CVE-2025-31082: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The vulnerability (CVE-2025-31082) affects the WordPress News & Blog Designer Pack plugin versions up to 4.0. It is classified as a Local File Inclusion vulnerability that allows PHP Local File Inclusion through improper control of filename for include/require statements. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on April 1, 2025, and affects the InfornWeb News & Blog Designer Pack plugin (NVD, CVE).

The vulnerability is classified as a high-severity issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.1. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with high attack complexity (AC:H), requires no privileges (PR:N), needs no user interaction (UI:N), has unchanged scope (S:U), and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). The vulnerability is categorized under CWE-98 (Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program) (Patchstack).

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to include local files of the target website and display their contents. Particularly sensitive files containing credentials, such as database configuration files, could be exposed, potentially leading to complete database takeover depending on the system configuration (Patchstack).

Users are strongly advised to update to version 4.0.1 or later, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. For temporary mitigation, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to block potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).