# CVE-2025-30567: WP01 - Path Traversal

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Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-30567

## 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:** wp01ru WP01
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))
- **Tags:** cms, wordpress

## Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in wp01ru WP01 allows Path Traversal. This issue affects WP01: from n/a through 2.6.2.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-30567](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-30567) is a path traversal vulnerability in wp01ru WP01 versions up to 2.6.2, allowing attackers to access files and directories outside the intended restricted directory. Exploiting this flaw could enable unauthorized disclosure of sensitive files or system compromise.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 7th of May 2025.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2025-30567 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit this vulnerability by first triggering the archive generation via the `wp01_generate_zip_archive` action, then downloading sensitive files from `/wp-content/wp01-backup/wp-01-passwd.zip` without authorization.

## Timeline

- 2025-03-25: CVE Published. CVE-2025-30567 is published to NVD.
- 2025-05-07: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-30567 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/wp01/vulnerability/wordpress-wp01-2-6-2-arbitrary-file-download-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-30567.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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