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CVE-2025-23849: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in Benjamin Piwowarski PAPERCITE WordPress plugin versions through 0.5.18. The vulnerability was disclosed on January 16, 2025, and is tracked as CVE-2025-23849. The issue allows exploiting incorrectly configured access control security levels (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium). The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L, indicating that it requires low privilege level and no user interaction to exploit, with potential impact on integrity and availability (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows unprivileged users to execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization checks. The impact is considered moderately dangerous with potential for exploitation (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

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

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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