{"id":86451,"date":"2026-02-13T01:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:17:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"cve-2025-31050-critical-path-traversal-vulnerability-in-apptha-slider-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-31050-critical-path-traversal-vulnerability-in-apptha-slider-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-31050: Critical Path Traversal Vulnerability in Apptha Slider Gallery<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The focus of this report is on a critical vulnerability, known as CVE-2025-31050, which resides in appthaplugins Apptha Slider Gallery. This Path Traversal vulnerability poses a significant threat to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the affected systems and data. Exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially lead to system compromise or data leakages, highlighting the urgent need for mitigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-31050<br \/>\nSeverity: High (CVSS:7.5)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: Required<br \/>\nImpact: Potential system compromise or data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-1799908477\" 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: 720px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center; letter-spacing: -0.02em;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 10px;\">\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: 42px; height: 42px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    Share secrets securely\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 14px; color: #d1d5db;\">\r\n    Ameeba is private infrastructure for communication and sensitive work built on encrypted identity instead of exposed corporate identity systems.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 18px; color: #a1a1aa;\">\r\n    Passwords, credentials, confidential files, screenshots, internal discussions, sensitive AI context, and private coordination should not become exposed across ordinary communication platforms.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #e4e4e7;\">\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Private Spaces for organizations and teams<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, files, and notes<\/li>\r\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom: 8px;\">\u2022 Sensitive AI work and protected collaboration<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Built for information that cannot leak<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px; color: #ffffff;\">\r\n    Our mission is to secure human work alongside AI.\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: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Download Ameeba\r\n    <\/a>\r\n\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: 500;\">\r\n      Learn More\r\n    <\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>Apptha Slider Gallery | n\/a through 2.5<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exploit takes advantage of an improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory (&#8216;Path Traversal&#8217;) vulnerability in the Apptha Slider Gallery. An attacker can manipulate variables that reference files with &#8216;dot-dot-slash (..\/)&#8217; sequences and its variations such as &#8216;http:\/\/&#8217;, thereby navigating out of the intended directory and gaining access to unauthorized files or directories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2588339138\" 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>Below is a simplified conceptual example of a malicious HTTP request exploiting the Path Traversal vulnerability:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">GET \/loadImage?filename=..\/..\/etc\/passwd HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, instead of loading an image, the attacker is attempting to retrieve a sensitive file (&#8216;\/etc\/passwd&#8217;) from the server.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Until a patch is available from the vendor, a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can be used as a temporary mitigation measure. These systems can detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability by inspecting incoming HTTP requests for patterns indicative of Path Traversal attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The focus of this report is on a critical vulnerability, known as CVE-2025-31050, which resides in appthaplugins Apptha Slider Gallery. This Path Traversal vulnerability poses a significant threat to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the affected systems and data. 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