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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2026-15979 Detail

Description

The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Deletion via Path Traversal in versions up to and including 11.3.0. This is due to insufficient validation of the 'img_file' field within the cegg_data post metadata: the value passes only through wp_strip_all_tags() (which does not strip path traversal sequences), is stored directly in post meta, and is later concatenated without normalization into a filesystem path in getFullImgPath() before being passed to PHP's unlink(). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to delete arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L372 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L161 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L200 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/helpers/ImageHelper.php#L149 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L372 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L161 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L200 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/helpers/ImageHelper.php#L149 Wordfence
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3610612%40content-egg%2Ftrunk%2Fapplication%2Fhelpers%2FImageHelper.php&old=3514579%40content-egg%2Ftrunk%2Fapplication%2Fhelpers%2FImageHelper.php Wordfence
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc1600b9-b590-47ca-b2d9-d521381da541?source=cve Wordfence

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Wordfence  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-15979
NVD Published Date:
08/05/2026
NVD Last Modified:
08/12/2026
Source:
Wordfence