CVE-2025-10162

Admin and Customer Messages After Order for WooCommerce: OrderConvo <= 13.5 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read

2025-09-16 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 14
Affected Plugin: OrderConvo – Vendor & Customer Messages After Orders
Affected Version: <= 13.5
CVSS: 7.5High
Weakness type: CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE: CVE-2025-10162

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At a glance

CVE-2025-10162 is a high-severity Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in the OrderConvo WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 13.5. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 14; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2025, reported by Khaled Alenazi (Nxploited).

Vulnerability Overview

The Admin and Customer Messages After Order for WooCommerce: OrderConvo plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 13.5 via the '/wp-json/wooconvo/v1/download-file' REST API. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality.

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Reaching this weakness in OrderConvo <= 13.5 takes no account at all. Path traversal happens when user-controlled text is used to build a filesystem path without being constrained to an intended directory, so sequences like ../ walk the resolved path somewhere else.

Depending on the operation, it means reading files outside the intended folder — wp-config.php being the usual target — or writing to and deleting paths the web server can touch. For OrderConvo the fix is 14: builds <= 13.5 are affected, anything from 14 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 14, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Requests carrying this pattern arrive without a session, so nothing upstream of the firewall gets a chance to reject them: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: OrderConvo 14 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10162 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/da13130f-9483-4e84-b652-faa248bf1047 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10162

Related records

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CVSS Vector

7.5

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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