# CVE-2025-13801: Yoco Payments - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-13801 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-13801

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 7.5
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Yocoadmin Yoco Payments
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))
- **Tags:** wordpress, cms

## Description

The Yoco Payments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 3.9.0 via the file parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which can contain sensitive information.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-13801](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-13801) is a path traversal vulnerability in the Yoco Payments plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.9.0. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files on the server by exploiting the file parameter, potentially exposing sensitive information such as configuration files, credentials, or other confidential data.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 6th of May 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2025-13801 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit the Yoco Payments plugin by sending requests to endpoints like `/wp-json/yoco/logs` or using the `rest_route=/yoco/logs` parameter, manipulating the `file` parameter with path traversal sequences (e.g., `../../`) to access sensitive files such as `/etc/passwd`.

## Timeline

- 2026-01-07: CVE Published. CVE-2025-13801 is published to NVD.
- 2026-05-06: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-13801 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-06-26: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-13801 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-13801.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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