A HIGH-severity vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-14868 has been published on April 16, 2026 with a CVSS base score of 8.8. This security advisory provides a detailed breakdown of the vulnerability, its potential impact, weakness classification, and actionable steps to protect your systems.
Vulnerability Details
CVE ID: CVE-2025-14868
Severity: HIGH
CVSS Score: 8.8
Published: April 16, 2026
Weakness (CWE): CWE-22
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Confidentiality Impact | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
Technical Description
The Career Section plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Deletion in all versions up to, and including, 1.6. This is due to missing nonce validation and insufficient file path validation on the delete action in the 'appform_options_page_html' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete arbitrary files on the server via a forged request, granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Potential Impact
If exploited, this high-severity vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise sensitive data confidentiality, tamper with system integrity, cause a denial of service. Organizations running affected software should treat this as a priority remediation item.
Recommended Action
No official patch is available yet. Until one is released:
- Monitor the official NVD page and vendor channels for patch announcements.
- Restrict access to the affected system or service where possible.
- Apply network-level mitigations such as firewall rules or WAF policies.
- Enable logging and alerting for anomalous activity related to this vulnerability.
- Review your incident response plan in case of active exploitation.
References
Related Security Advisories
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- [HIGH] CVE-2024-2374 — CVSS 7.5 (April 16, 2026) — HIGH / CVSS 7.5
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