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CVE-2025-2505 (GCVE-0-2025-2505)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-20 07:29 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:26

KEVIntel

Title

Age Gate <= 3.5.3 - Unauthenticated Local PHP File Inclusion via 'lang'

Summary

The Age Gate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Local PHP File Inclusion in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.3 via the 'lang' parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to include and execute arbitrary PHP files on the server, allowing the execution of code in those files. This can be used to bypass access controls, obtain sensitive data, or achieve code execution in cases where images and other “safe” file types can be uploaded and included.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-20 14:50 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

Wordfence

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/age-ga…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3258075/

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
philsbury	Age Gate	Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.5.3 (semver)

Credits

Michael Mazzolini

KEVIntel

Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant

KEV entry ID: 3612d282-9304-45bb-8a1d-d71c8c14eeb2

Vulnerability ID: CVE-2025-2505

Status: Confirmed

Status Updated: 2026-08-11 07:58 UTC

Exploited: Yes

Timestamps

First Seen: 2026-08-11

Asserted: 2026-08-11

Scope

Evidence

Type: Public Report

Signal: Successful Exploitation

Confidence: 70%

Source: kevintel

Details

Feed	KEVIntel (kevintel.com)
Title	Age Gate <= 3.5.3 - Unauthenticated Local PHP File Inclusion via 'lang'
Vendor	philsbury
Product	Age Gate
Added Date	2026-08-11T07:58:07.782Z
Cvss Score	9.8
Epss Score	0.03945
Cvss Severity	CRITICAL
Epss Percentile	0.89413
Used In Malware	unknown
Ahead Of Cisa Kev	None
Not Yet In Cisa Kev	True

References

Created: 2026-08-11 08:00 UTC | Updated: 2026-08-11 08:00 UTC

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FKIE_CVE-2025-2505

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-03-20 08:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:07

KEVIntel

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/age-gate/trunk/vendor/agegate/common/src/Settings.php#L27
	security@wordfence.com	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3258075/
	security@wordfence.com	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d6ac2996-098f-474c-b44e-78d5af7b503a?source=cve

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-GV93-97PW-JV67

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-20 09:30 – Updated: 2025-03-20 09:30

Details

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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CVE-2025-2505 (GCVE-0-2025-2505)

KEVIntel

Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant

Timestamps

Scope

Evidence

Public Report Successful Exploitation Confidence: 70% Source: kevintel

Details

References

FKIE_CVE-2025-2505

GHSA-GV93-97PW-JV67

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature