CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-8147
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-10-18
- 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-285
Description
The LWSCache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to improper authorization on the lwscache_activatePlugin() function in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.5. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to activate arbitrary whitelisted LWS plugins.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lwscache/tags/2.8.5/lwscache.php#L401 plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3352047/ plugins.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/lwscache/#developers wordpress.org
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/01a6a5bf-636b-416c-86fa-43f639624e80?source=cve www.wordfence.com