---
id: CVE-2025-14868
title: >-
  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
summary: >-
  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…
severity: high
cvss: 8.8
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cwe:
  - CWE-22
published: '2026-04-16'
updated: '2026-09-30'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-30T22:10:00.273'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14868'
references:
  - url: 'https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3474216/career-section'
    label: security@wordfence.com
  - url: >-
      https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/84936b68-923a-4da1-ae67-1d63d025342e?source=cve
    label: security@wordfence.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00412
epssPercentile: 0.33063
ingestedAt: '2026-09-30T22:27:27.758Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.