HUSKY – Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce - Path Traversal (CVE-2025-1661)

CVE-2025-1661 is a critical vulnerability in the HUSKY – Products Filter Professional for WooCommerce WordPress plugin that allows unauthenticated attackers to exploit a Local File Inclusion flaw via the 'template' parameter. This vulnerability enables remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary files on the server, potentially leading to full remote code execution, data theft, or bypassing access controls. Attackers could leverage this flaw to upload and execute malicious PHP code, posing a severe risk to affected WordPress sites.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 15th of April 2026.

CrowdSec network data shows that most actors exploiting CVE-2025-1661 rely on broad, untargeted scans with minimal filtering. The activity is largely automated and opportunistic in nature. Telemetry from the CrowdSec network also shows that exploitation activity for CVE-2025-1661 remains steady week-over-week. Attack volumes are consistent with long-term trends, indicating sustained interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-1661 continues to be an active part of the threat landscape and will likely remain this way for the forseeable future.

Attackers exploit the unauthenticated AJAX endpoint /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php by abusing the template parameter in requests with action=woof_text_search to perform local file inclusion, often targeting sensitive files such as wp-config.