CVE-2025-25163

WordPress Plugin A/B Image Optimizer Plugin <= 3.3 - Arbitrary File Download vulnerability

7.5 HighPublic exploit

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Zach Swetz Plugin A/B Image Optimizer images-optimizer allows Path Traversal.This issue affects Plugin A/B Image Optimizer: from n/a through <= 3.3.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges needed: None
User interaction: None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
Availability: None

Exploit likelihood

2.04%Up 2.0 points since Feb 8, 2025

What each source reports

CVE List Score used7.5

WordPress Plugin A/B Image Optimizer Plugin <= 3.3 - Arbitrary File Download vulnerability

Record: CVE-2025-25163
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-22
Updated: 2026-11-02

EUVDEUVD-2025-40687.5

Record: EUVD-2025-4068
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated: 2026-11-02

GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-76vr-r6c5-cx5q7.5

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in...

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Zach Swetz Plugin A/B Image Optimizer allows Path Traversal. This issue affects Plugin A/B Image Optimizer: from n/a through 3.3.

Record: GHSA-76vr-r6c5-cx5q
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness: CWE-22
Updated: 2026-11-02

NVD7.5

Record: CVE-2025-25163
CVSS 3.1: 7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1: 9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness: CWE-22
Updated: 2026-11-02

Affected products

Public exploits

Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.

Public exploits
Source	Link	Date
PoC in GitHub	RandomRobbieBF/CVE-2025-25163	2025-02-18
PoC in GitHub	RootHarpy/CVE-2025-25163-Nuclei-Template	2025-02-19

History

History
Recorded	Changed	Sources
Nov 2, 2026	first indexed	CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, PoC in GitHub

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2025-25163 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Zach Swetz Plugin A/b Image Optimizer, published February 7, 2025. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.04%, the 81st percentile. No source names a fixed version.