CVE-2026-15979Content Egg <= 11.3.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Arbitrary File Deletion
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Wordfence
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
keywordrush · Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison
- affected ≤ 11.3.0
References
References10
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc1600b9-b590-47ca-b2d9-d521381da541?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/helpers/ImageHelper.php#L149 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L161 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L372 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L200 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/helpers/ImageHelper.php#L149 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L161 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/admin/EggMetabox.php#L372 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/components/ContentManager.php#L200 (opens in a new tab)
- 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 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-53341 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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