CVE•Published 2025-12-06•Modified 2026-10-15•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-13065
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
96
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 4% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
The Starter Templates plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file upload in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.41. This is due to insufficient file type validation detecting WXR files, allowing double extension files to bypass sanitization while being accepted as a valid WXR file. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server which may make remote code execution possible.
Timeline
Published 2025-12-06
Modified 2026-10-15
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2025-13065Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2025-13065Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2025-13065Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2025-13065GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2025-13065" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2025-13065 on GitHub.