CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-5812
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-06-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-862
Description
The VG WORT METIS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the gutenberg_save_post() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to update limited post settings.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-862 Missing Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/vgw-metis/trunk/classes/admin.php#L422 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3334017/vgw-metis/trunk/classes/admin.php plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b9edcbdc-5b01-4880-95ec-57d87ccbb472?source=cve www.wordfence.com