The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field within the cegg_data post metadata: the value passes only through wp_strip_all_tags() (which does not strip path traversal sequences), is stored directly in post meta, and is later concatenated without normalization into a filesystem path in getFullImgPath() before being passed to PHP's unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
History

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Keywordrush
Keywordrush content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Keywordrush
Keywordrush content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison
Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field within the cegg_data post metadata: the value passes only through wp_strip_all_tags() (which does not strip path traversal sequences), is stored directly in post meta, and is later concatenated without normalization into a filesystem path in getFullImgPath() before being passed to PHP's unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
Title Content Egg <= 11.3.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Deletion
Weaknesses CWE-22
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2026-08-05T13:26:43.073Z

Updated: 2026-08-05T14:40:28.082Z

Reserved: 2026-07-16T16:28:59.312Z

Link: CVE-2026-15979

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-05T14:40:18.375Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-08-05T14:17:03.547

Modified: 2026-08-12T21:00:37.147

Link: CVE-2026-15979

cve-icon Redhat

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