Path Traversal in Keywordrush Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison
CVE-2026-15979
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.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.012 (68.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc1600b9-b590-47ca-b2d9-d5213…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/helpers/…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/componen…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/admin/Eg…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.3.0/application/componen…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/helpers/…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/componen…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/admin/Eg…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/content-egg/tags/11.2.0/application/componen…
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-15979?
- CVE-2026-15979 is a high-severity vulnerability in Keywordrush Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2026-08-05.
- How severe is CVE-2026-15979?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.