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EmailKit <= 1.6.1 — Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal

CVE-2025-14059Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤1.6.1Update to 1.6.2 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.5
CVSS
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:L Privileges required
Low
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:N Integrity
None
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

EmailKit – Email Customizer for WooCommerce & WP emailkit

  1. Affected≤ 1.6.1
  2. Patched in1.6.2

Update to 1.6.2 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 1.6.1. Version 1.6.2 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under EmailKit – Email Customizer for WooCommerce & WP.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 1.6.2, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch EmailKit – Email Customizer for WooCommerce & WP to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Dmitrii Ignatyev.

The EmailKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.1. This is due to missing path validation in the create_template REST API endpoint where user-controlled input from the emailkit-editor-template parameter is passed directly to file_get_contents() without sanitization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Author-level permissions or higher to read arbitrary files on the server, including sensitive configuration files like /etc/passwd and wp-config.php, via the REST API. The file contents are stored in post meta and can be exfiltrated through MetForm's email confirmation feature.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in EmailKit – Email Customizer for WooCommerce & WP

All 5
More vulnerabilities in EmailKit – Email Customizer for WooCommerce & WP
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium6.5Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Read via 'emailkit-editor-template' REST Parameter
≤1.6.5Update to 1.6.6
CVE-2026-5957
Medium4.9Authenticated (Administrator+) Path Traversal via 'emailkit-editor-template' REST API Parameter
≤1.6.3Update to 1.6.4
CVE-2026-3474
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Post Title Modification
≤1.6.2Update to 1.6.3
CVE-2026-1925
Medium4.3Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary Content Deletion
≤1.6.0Update to 1.6.1
CVE-2025-60106

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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