CVE-2025-8562

Impact

The Custom Query Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 0.4.0 via the 'lens' parameter. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to read the contents of files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Affected packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• https://github.com/peterhebert/custom-query-shortcode/pull/1
• https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/custom-query-shortcode/tags/0.4.0/init.php
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3348818/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-query-shortcode/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9e37c664-76ed-4ede-88fd-e41b9969685f?source=cve