CVE-2025-58996

WordPress Advanced Settings Plugin <= 3.1.1 - Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 9.1 Critical
Published: Nov 6, 2025
Updated: Apr 28, 2026
Reserved: Sep 6, 2025

Description

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type vulnerability in Helmut Wandl Advanced Settings advanced-settings allows Upload a Web Shell to a Web Server.This issue affects Advanced Settings: from n/a through <= 3.1.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.1 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	Patchstack

Weaknesses

CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Advanced SettingsHelmut Wandl	3.1.1 and earlierAffectedfrom 3.2.0Not affected

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/advanced-settings/vulnerability/wordpress-advanced-settings-plugin-3-1-1-arbitrary-file-upload-vulnerability?_s_id=cvevdb-entry

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