Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin <= 15.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 15.1
- Affected Plugin
- Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin
- Affected Version
<= 15.0- CVSS
- 7.5High
- Weakness type
- CWE-98 · Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion')
- CVE
CVE-2025-52728
At a glance
CVE-2025-52728 is a high-severity Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in the Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 15.0. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (reachable over the network; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 15.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2025, reported by Tran Nguyen Bao Khanh.
Vulnerability Overview
The Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in versions up to, and including, 15.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to include and execute arbitrary files on the server, allowing the execution of any PHP code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where images and other “safe” file types can be uploaded and included.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-98: Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion')
Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin <= 15.0 carries this weakness at safe, and reaching it takes an account at Subscriber level or above. PHP file inclusion means a path used by include or require is built from request data, so the file that gets executed is under the caller's influence.
Including an attacker-influenced file executes its contents, which is why this class is routinely chained with an upload or log-poisoning step to reach code execution. For Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin the fix is 15.1: builds <= 15.0 are affected, anything from 15.1 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 15.1, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Subscriber access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. Classes like this one can leave something behind, so the staged malware scanner is the second half: it looks for dropped files and modified code rather than for the request that created them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin 15.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Scanner
- Alerts
External References
Related records
Same weakness class
Other vulnerabilities in Responsive Posts Carousel WordPress Plugin
Vulnerability data © Defiant, Inc., provided under the Wordfence Intelligence T&C