CVE-2023-25714: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Quick Paypal Payments WordPress plugin versions 5.7.25 and below contain a Broken Access Control vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-25714. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher yuyudhn on January 5, 2023, and was publicly disclosed on February 14, 2023. This security issue affects the Fullworks Quick Paypal Payments plugin for WordPress installations (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue, which stems from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in certain functions. This allows unprivileged users to execute actions typically reserved for users with higher privileges. The vulnerability has received a CVSS severity score of 7.5, categorizing it as High severity (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is considered highly dangerous and is expected to become mass exploited. Due to the broken access control nature of the vulnerability, unauthorized users could potentially execute privileged actions within WordPress installations running the affected plugin versions (Patchstack).

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 5.7.26 of the Quick Paypal Payments plugin. Users are strongly advised to update to version 5.7.26 or later to resolve the vulnerability. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).