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Persuasion <= 2.4 — Arbitrary File Deletion

aab42989-b928-492f-a610-d2a5546751e0Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.4Update to 2.5 or newer

All remediation steps
Watch theme
Severity
High7.5
CVSS
7.5
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:N Confidentiality
None
I:N Integrity
None
A:H Availability
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?

Persuasion persuasion

  1. Affected≤ 2.4
  2. Patched in2.5

Update to 2.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.4. Version 2.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Persuasion.
  • 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

  1. Update to version 2.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Persuasion to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Interference Security.

The Persuasion Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion in versions up to, and including, 2.4. This is due to the '_mysite_delete_skin_zip' parameter in the 'dl-skin.php' file. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete any file on the server of the vulnerable service.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

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

Advisories & patches

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity high, CVSS 7.5

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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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