CVE-2025-22280: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-22280) was discovered in revmakx DefendWP Firewall affecting versions through 1.1.0. The vulnerability allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels. The issue was reported on February 11, 2025, and publicly disclosed on February 24, 2025 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and received a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.6 (High). The vulnerability stems from a broken access control issue where there is a missing authorization, authentication or nonce token check in a function that could allow an unprivileged user to execute higher privileged actions (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is considered highly dangerous and expected to become mass exploited. It affects the security levels of access control in the DefendWP Firewall plugin, potentially allowing unauthorized users to execute privileged actions (Patchstack).

The vulnerability requires subscriber-level privileges to exploit. According to security researchers, this vulnerability is highly dangerous and expected to become mass exploited (Patchstack).

Users are advised to update to DefendWP Firewall version 1.1.1 or later to resolve the vulnerability. For users unable to update immediately, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking any attacks until the update can be applied (Patchstack).