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CVE-2026-15979

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 0.77% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-08-05 · Last synced 2026-08-16

CyberRota Analysis

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The Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file deletion due to a path traversal flaw in versions up to 11.3.0. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with author-level access to delete arbitrary files on the server, potentially leading to remote code execution. WordPress site administrators using this plugin should prioritize patching to mitigate the risk of exploitation.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
remote code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2026-15979
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
0.77%
WordPress

Original NVD 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.