Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2025 · Assigned by Wordfence
CVE-2025-9215StoreEngine – Powerful WordPress eCommerce Plugin for Payments, Memberships, Affiliates, Sales & More <= 1.5.0 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary File Download
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity path traversal in StoreEngine — Complete eCommerce Solution with Memberships, Licensing, Affiliates & More from kodezen. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The StoreEngine – Powerful WordPress eCommerce Plugin for Payments, Memberships, Affiliates, Sales & More plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.0 via the file_download() function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| kodezen | StoreEngine — Complete eCommerce Solution with Memberships, Licensing, Affiliates & More | 0 – through 1.5.0 |
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07b1dc05-1340-4ea3-9315-3e1ca4a0cb7f?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/storeengine/trunk/addons/csv/ajax/export.php#L47
- https://github.com/d0n601/CVE-2025-9215
- https://ryankozak.com/posts/cve-2025-9215/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3360097/storeengine/trunk/addons/csv/ajax/export.php