CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-5190
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-05-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-288
Description
The Browse As plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authentication bypass in versions up to, and including, 0.2. This is due to incorrect authentication checking in the 'IS_BA_Browse_As::notice' function with the 'is_ba_original_user_COOKIEHASH' cookie value. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to log in as any existing user on the site, such as an administrator, if they have access to the user id.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L115 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/browse-as/tags/0.2/browse-as.php#L92 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8f5722b0-0d54-4c44-b168-a886da1077cb?source=cve www.wordfence.com