Printeers Print & Ship <= 1.17.0 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- Printeers Print & Ship
- Affected Version
<= 1.17.0- CVSS
- 5.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
- CVE
CVE-2025-48081
At a glance
CVE-2025-48081 is a medium-severity Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in the Printeers Print & Ship WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.17.0. It carries a CVSS score of 5.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed August 2025, reported by Nguyen Xuan Chien.
Vulnerability Overview
The Printeers Print & Ship plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.17.0. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform actions on files outside of the originally intended directory.
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.
CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Reaching this weakness in Printeers Print & Ship <= 1.17.0 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. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for Printeers Print & Ship yet, so installs running <= 1.17.0 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
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. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
- Firewall
- Login Security
- Alerts
External References
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