WordPress Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin <= 1.7.1 - Path Traversal vulnerability
Priority LOW 23CWE-35Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Path Traversal: '.../...//' vulnerability in WordPress.org Health Check & Troubleshooting health-check allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Health Check & Troubleshooting: from n/a through <= 1.7.1.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00472 41st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-64253
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-99m8-4fhj-qqmr
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Sources
- CVE-2025-64253 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-64253 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-99m8-4fhj-qqmr · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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