Section Widget <= 3.3.1 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE CVE-2025-46441
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published April 30, 2025
Last Updated May 8, 2025
Researcher Nguyen Xuan Chien
Description

The Section Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.1. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug section-widget (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.1
Patched Version
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