Cyber Posture

CVE-2025-24782

Medium

Published: 27 January 2025

Published
27 January 2025
Modified
23 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0034 56.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

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-2025-24782 is an Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement vulnerability, classified as PHP Remote File Inclusion but manifesting as PHP Local File Inclusion, in the wpWax Post Grid, Slider & Carousel Ultimate WordPress plugin (post-grid-carousel-ultimate). This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.6.10, as documented in the CVE description published on 2025-01-27.

The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity. It requires low privileges (such as an authenticated contributor or similar role) and no user interaction, enabling exploitation to achieve high confidentiality impact through unauthorized disclosure of local files on the server.

Patchstack's advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/post-grid-carousel-ultimate/vulnerability/wordpress-post-grid-slider-carousel-ultimate-with-shortcode-gutenberg-block-elementor-widget-plugin-1-6-10-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve details the Local File Inclusion flaw specifically in plugin version 1.6.10. Practitioners should review the advisory for mitigation guidance, including potential patches or workarounds from the vendor.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-98NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

wpwax
post grid\, slider \& carousel ultimate
≤ 1.7

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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T1005 Data from Local System Collection
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.
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Why these techniques?

LFI vulnerability in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web application (T1190) for unauthorized local file reads (T1005).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

References