CVE-2025-47512 HIGH

CVE-2025-47512: WordPress Tainacan plugin <= 0.21.14 - Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability

Vendor Tainacan
Product Tainacan
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published May 23, 2025
Last update April 28, 2026
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CVSS base score

8.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in tainacan Tainacan tainacan allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Tainacan: from n/a through <= 0.21.14.

Explanation of Vulnerability in Simple Terms

02Summary

Tainacan versions up to 0.21.14 contain a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by sending specially crafted requests. The vulnerability does not require user interaction and can be exploited over the network. No authentication is needed to trigger the issue.

What an attacker can do

03Attacker Capabilities

Make the site unavailable or unresponsive by sending malicious requests.

Potential impact on your site

04Site Impact

Your Tainacan site could become unavailable or slow to respond without warning.

Conditions required to exploit

05Prerequisites

Network access only; no authentication or user interaction required.

Key dates

06Disclosure timeline

May 23, 2025 CVE published
April 28, 2026 Record updated