Quick answers
- Is CVE-2025-53440 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2025-53440 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2025-53440?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 8.1, published 2 June 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Axiomthemes Confidant n/a through 1.4.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2025-53440?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2025-53440 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2025-53440?
- Check whether you run Axiomthemes Confidant at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
A Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability exists in the Axiomthemes Confidant theme (versions up to 1.4) due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input used in PHP include or require statements (CWE-98). An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by submitting specially crafted requests to include local files from the server's filesystem. Successful exploitation can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information, such as the wp-config.php file, or potentially remote code execution if the attacker can upload or influence the content of a local file. As of the advisory date, no official patch has been released.
Affected products
- Axiomthemes Confidant n/a through 1.4
Timeline
- 2025-08-03: other: Vulnerability reported by researcher Bonds
- 2026-05-26: advisory: Patchstack published advisory
- 2026-06-02: disclosed: CVE published to NVD