CVE-2025-56431
Directory Traversal vulnerability in Fearless Geek Media FearlessCMS v.0.0.2-15 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the plugin-handler.php and the file_get_contents() function.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Directory Traversal vulnerability in Fearless Geek Media FearlessCMS v.0.0.2-15 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the plugin-handler.php and the file_get_contents() function.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.85% probability · 58th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- fearlessgeekmedia/fearlesscms
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/fearlessgeekmedia/FearlessCMS/issues/36Exploit, Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/fearlessgeekmedia/FearlessCMS/issues/36Exploit, Issue Tracking
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.