CVE-2025-22702
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-22702) was discovered in EPC Photography theme affecting versions through 7.5.2. The vulnerability was disclosed on February 14, 2025, and is classified as a broken access control issue (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.3 (MEDIUM) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L. The issue is categorized under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) and requires subscriber-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in specific functions (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

No official fix is currently available. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available (Patchstack).

Additional resources


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