Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin <= 15.0 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion
CVE-2025-52728Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤15.0Update to 15.1 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High7.5
- CVSS
- 7.5CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:HAttack complexity- High
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-98 Local File Inclusion
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin responsive-posts-carousel-pro
- Affected≤ 15.0
- Patched in15.1
Update to 15.1 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 15.0. Version 15.1 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 15.1, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh.
The Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to, and including, 15.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary 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 images and other “safe” file types 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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|---|---|---|---|
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤15.1No patch available | CVE-2026-27361 | |
| High7.5 | Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion ≤15.1No patch available | CVE-2025-68996 | |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 7.5
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
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.