{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13677 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2025-13677 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2025-13677 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in specialk Simple Download Counter, published on 10 Dec 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2025-13677 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2025-13677 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in specialk Simple Download Counter, published on 10 Dec 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-13677 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: specialk Simple Download Counter. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13677/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13677/index.md)","id":"CVE-2025-13677","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13677/index.md","name":"CVE-2025-13677","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-qv5q-qmv4-27rm"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Authenticated administrators can read arbitrary server files via path traversal in the Simple Download Counter WordPress plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":4.9,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-22","name":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory"}],"description":"The Simple Download Counter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Path Traversal in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.2. This is due to insufficient path validation in the `simple_download_counter_parse_path()` function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Administrator-level access and above, to read the contents of arbitrary files on the server, which may contain sensitive information such as database credentials (wp-config.php) or system files. Please note that the vendor opted to continue to allow remote file downloads from arbitrary locations on the server, however, has disabled this functionality on multi-sites and provided a warning to site owners in the readme.txt when they install the plugin. While not an optimal patch, we have considered this sufficient and recommend users proceed to use the plugin with caution.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Simple Download Counter \u003c= 2.2.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal","id":"CVE-2025-13677","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2025"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Thai Lottery Widget \u003c= 2.5 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes","id":"CVE-2025-13678"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"JustClick registration plugin \u003c= 0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via PHP_SELF","id":"CVE-2025-13676"},"products":["Simple Download Counter"],"published":"2025-12-10","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["specialk"]},"summary":"Authenticated administrators can read arbitrary server files via path traversal in the Simple Download Counter WordPress plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-13677/"}