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CVE-2025-3520

HIGH CVSS: 8.1 Published: 2025-04-18 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The Avatar plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to insufficient file path validation in a function in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.4. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, 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).

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References