Local File Inclusion Vulnerability in Player Leaderboard Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2025-12824

8.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Player Leaderboard
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 December 2025

What is CVE-2025-12824?

The Player Leaderboard plugin for WordPress contains a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability that affects versions up to and including 1.0.2. This vulnerability arises from an insecure implementation of the 'player_leaderboard' shortcode, which allows authenticated users with Contributor-level access and higher to pass unsanitized values to an include() function, failing to properly validate paths. As a result, attackers can potentially include and execute arbitrary PHP files from the server, resulting in unauthorized access to sensitive data and possibly leading to full remote code execution if exploited in conjunction with file upload features.

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Affected Version(s)

Player Leaderboard 1.0.0 <= 1.0.2

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/player-leaderb...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Kenneth Dunn
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