CVE-2025-15693 JCH Optimize 4.2.1 - 5.0.0 - Admin+ Path Traversal
Administrators can enumerate directories and files outside the web root via an unrestricted path in the image-browsing feature.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-15693?
CVE-2025-15693 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in Unknown JCH Optimize, published on 5 Sep 2026. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The JCH Optimize WordPress plugin before 5.0.1 does not properly restrict a directory path provided to one of its administrative image-browsing features to within the site, allowing high-privilege users, administrators on single-site and sub-site administrators on multisite, to enumerate directories and file names outside the web root.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-15693?
How do I fix CVE-2025-15693?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-15693 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-15693 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-15693 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pqwr-mv7c-mq9q.