{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-4280 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-4280 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-4280 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in doctorwp Breaking News WP, published on 22 Apr 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-4280 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-4280 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in doctorwp Breaking News WP, published on 22 Apr 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-4280 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: doctorwp Breaking News WP. 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-2026-4280/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4280/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-4280","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4280/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-4280","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-mh5c-2v7r-xcxg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated subscribers can read arbitrary server files via path traversal in the Breaking News WP plugin due to missing authorization and insufficient input validation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"path_traversal"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 Breaking News WP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 1.3. This is due to the brnwp_ajax_form AJAX endpoint lacking both authorization checks and CSRF verification, combined with insufficient path validation when the brnwp_theme option value is passed directly to an include() statement in the brnwp_show_breaking_news_wp() shortcode handler. While sanitize_text_field() is applied to user input, it does not strip directory traversal sequences (../). This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to overwrite the brnwp_theme option with a directory traversal payload (e.g., ../../../../etc/passwd) and subsequently trigger file inclusion of arbitrary files on the server when the shortcode is rendered.","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":"Breaking News WP \u003c= 1.3 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Local File Inclusion/Read","id":"CVE-2026-4280","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"path_traversal","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in FormLift for Infusionsoft Web Forms","id":"CVE-2026-4281"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in Bread \u0026 Butter: AI-Powered Lead Intelligence","id":"CVE-2026-4279"},"products":["Breaking News WP"],"published":"2026-04-22","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":"2026-04-23","vendors":["doctorwp"]},"summary":"Authenticated subscribers can read arbitrary server files via path traversal in the Breaking News WP plugin due to missing authorization and insufficient input validation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4280/"}