GHSA-28j2-6q62-7r48 · Severity: medium — The EmailKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to and...
The EmailKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to and including 1.6.5. This is due to a flawed path traversal validation in the create_template() method of the CheckForm class, where realpath() is called on the allowed base directory (wp-content/uploads/emailkit/templates/) which may not exist, causing it to return false. In PHP 8.x, strpos($real_path, false) implicitly converts false to an empty string, and strpos() with an empty needle always returns 0, causing the check strpos(...) !== 0 to evaluate to false and bypassing the path validation entirely. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to read arbitrary files from the server, including sensitive files such as wp-config.php, by supplying an absolute path to the emailkit-editor-template REST API parameter.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-5957 is rated Low Risk (38.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.44%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.06% | 0.44% | +0.38% |
| 2 | 2026-05-05 | — | 0.06% | — |
Full EPSS history (2 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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2.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
GHSA-28j2-6q62-7r48 · Severity: medium — The EmailKit plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read in all versions up to and...
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| No affected products in dataset. | |||