# CVE-2025-69411: ionCube tester plus - Path Traversal

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Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-69411

## 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:** Robert Seyfriedsberger ionCube tester plus
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))
- **Tags:** wordpress, cms

## Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Robert Seyfriedsberger ionCube tester plus ioncube-tester-plus allows Path Traversal.This issue affects ionCube tester plus: from n/a through <= 1.3.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-69411](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-69411) is a path traversal vulnerability in Robert Seyfriedsberger's ionCube tester plus up to version 1.3, which allows attackers to access files outside the intended directory. Exploiting this flaw could enable remote attackers to read sensitive files on the server, potentially exposing confidential information and increasing the risk of further compromise.

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

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2025-69411 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit the vulnerable `loader-wizard.php` endpoint in the ionCube Tester Plus WordPress plugin by manipulating the `ininame` parameter with path traversal sequences to read sensitive files such as `/etc/passwd` or `wp-config.php` without authentication.

## Timeline

- 2026-03-05: CVE Published. CVE-2025-69411 is published to NVD.
- 2026-05-06: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-69411 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-08-18: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-69411 for the first time.

## References

- https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/ioncube-tester-plus/vulnerability/wordpress-ioncube-tester-plus-plugin-1-3-arbitrary-file-download-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-69411.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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