WordPress Child Themes Helper plugin <= 2.2.7 - CSRF to Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability

published 2025-02-07 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-4026

cvss: 6.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits: 0; none known

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in paulswarthout Child Themes Helper child-themes-helper allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Child Themes Helper: from n/a through <= 2.2.7.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 21 mo ago (2025-02-07)

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

paulswarthout Child Themes Helper

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/child-themes-helper/vulnerability/wordpress-child-themes-helper-plugin-2-2-7-csrf-t
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-25093
NVD CVE-2025-25093

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Summary