CVE-2025-8141

Redirection for Contact Form 7 <= 3.2.4 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Deletion

2025-08-19 12:31
Phat RiO

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.2.5
Affected Plugin
Redirection for Contact Form 7
Affected Version
<= 3.2.4
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVE
CVE-2025-8141
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At a glance

CVE-2025-8141 is a high-severity Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in the Redirection for Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.2.4. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.2.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2025, reported by Phat RiO.

Vulnerability Overview

The Redirection for Contact Form 7 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in the delete_associated_files function in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers 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).

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. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

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

Reaching this weakness in Redirection for Contact Form 7 <= 3.2.4 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 Redirection for Contact Form 7 the fix is 3.2.5: builds <= 3.2.4 are affected, anything from 3.2.5 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.2.5, 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: Redirection for Contact Form 7 3.2.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8141https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fafd0159-25ab-430d-88ef-c4d09d23baa7https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8141

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