CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-2821
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-05-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The Search Exclude plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the get_rest_permission function in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.9. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to modify plugin settings, excluding content from search results.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/search-exclude/tags/2.4.6/lib/api/entities/settings/class-post.php#L42 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3284798/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1f72a309-8ef8-4943-8e64-38bb7909397a?source=cve www.wordfence.com