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CVE-2025-11171: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Chartify – WordPress Chart Plugin for WordPress contains a Missing Authentication for Critical Function vulnerability (CVE-2025-11171) discovered on October 8, 2025. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 3.5.9 of the plugin (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from the plugin registering an unauthenticated AJAX action that dispatches to admin-class methods based on a request parameter, without implementing any nonce or capability checks. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.3 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N and is classified as CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function) (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute administrative functions through the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php endpoint, provided they can identify callable method names. This could potentially lead to unauthorized administrative actions being performed on the affected WordPress sites (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to version 3.6.0 or later of the Chartify plugin which contains fixes for this vulnerability (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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