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Administrator Z <= 2025.03.28 — Authenticated (Admin+) Directory Traversal

CVE-2025-39598Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2025.03.28Update to 2025.03.30 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch plugin
Severity
Low2.7
CVSS
2.7
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-22 Path Traversal
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

Administrator Z administrator-z

  1. Affected≤ 2025.03.28
  2. Patched in2025.03.30

Update to 2025.03.30 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2025.03.28. Version 2025.03.30 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Administrator Z.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2025.03.30, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Administrator Z to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Nguyen Xuan Chien.

The Administrator Z plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2025.03.28. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

More in Administrator Z

All 6
More vulnerabilities in Administrator Z
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery
<2026.05.10Update to 2026.05.10
CVE-2025-32276
Medium6.4Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤2025.09.27No patch available
CVE-2025-32187
High8.8Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Options Update
≤2025.03.24Update to 2025.03.27
CVE-2025-2815
Medium6.5Authenticated (Subscriber+) SQL Injection
≤2024.10.14Update to 2024.10.21
CVE-2024-50524
Medium4.3Unauthorized File Upload via ACF
≤2022.9.28Update to 2022.9.29
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Same weakness (Path Traversal)

All Path Traversal
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High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent Header
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CVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission
Chatterbug Forms – Fast, Flexible WordPress Form Builder≤1.0.2Update to 1.1
CVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter
ELEX WordPress HelpDesk & Customer Ticketing System≤3.3.9Update to 3.4.0
CVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity low, CVSS 2.7

  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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