CVE-2025-7778

Published: Aug 15, 2025Modified: Aug 15, 2025

9.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The Icons Factory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion due to insufficient authorization and improper path validation within the delete_files() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.12. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to to delete arbitrary files on the server, which can easily lead to remote code execution when the right file is deleted (such as wp-config.php).

Related CWEs

CWE-285

Improper Authorization

The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

References (3)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/icons-factory/tags/1.6.12/icons-factory.php#L1330

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://wordpress.org/plugins/icons-factory/#developers

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/24f31bbf-883f-4903-847a-7bfc3e45654c?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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