Feeds for YouTube Pro <= 2.6.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2025-12002
CVSS Medium (5.9)
Publicly Published January 16, 2026
Last Updated January 17, 2026
Researcher LionTree
Description

The Feeds for YouTube Pro plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file read in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.0 via the 'sby_check_wp_submit' AJAX action. This is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data and the use of that data in a file operation. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information, granted the 'Save Featured Images' setting is enabled and 'Disable WP Posts' is disabled. Note: This vulnerability only affects the Pro version of Feeds for YouTube.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug youtube-feed-pro (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.6.0
Patched Version
  • 2.6.1
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