MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution <= 4.2.14 — Unauthenticated Limited Local File Inclusion
CVE-2025-0493Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤4.2.14Update to 4.2.15 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Critical9.8
- CVSS
- 9.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-22 Path Traversal
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
MultiVendorX – WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace AI Powered Solutions dc-woocommerce-multi-vendor
- Affected≤ 4.2.14
- Patched in4.2.15
Update to 4.2.15 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 4.2.14. Version 4.2.15 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under MultiVendorX – WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace AI Powered Solutions.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 4.2.15, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch MultiVendorX – WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace AI Powered Solutions to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Michael Mazzolini.
The MultiVendorX – The Ultimate WooCommerce Multivendor Marketplace Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Limited Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 4.2.14 via the tabname parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include PHP files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where PHP files can be uploaded and included
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- CVSS / CWE
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