CVE-2025-9693

Published: Sep 11, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

8.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.1 / Impact: 5.9

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

Description

The User Meta – User Profile Builder and User management plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the postInsertUserProcess function in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.2. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, 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-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

References (2)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-meta/tags/3.1.2/models/classes/UserInsert.php#L642

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d482f3a1-4a5a-4382-88b1-fd3b91605694?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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