CVE-2025-24569
Published: 03 February 2025
Description
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
Security Summary
CVE-2025-24569 is an Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability, corresponding to CWE-22, in the RedefiningTheWeb PDF Generator Addon for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin, specifically the pdf-generator-addon-for-elementor-page-builder component. This flaw affects all versions up to and including 1.7.5, allowing attackers to traverse path restrictions.
The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating high severity due to network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges or user interaction, and unchanged scope with high confidentiality impact. Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit it to read arbitrary files on the affected server.
Patchstack's advisory documents this as an arbitrary file read vulnerability in PDF Generator Addon for Elementor Page Builder version 1.7.5, with details available in their vulnerability database.
Details
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MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques
Why these techniques?
Path traversal in public-facing WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated remote arbitrary file read, directly mapping to exploitation of public-facing apps (T1190) and collection of data from local system (T1005).