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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2025-23962
CVE-2025-23962:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Missing Authorization vulnerability was discovered in the Goldstar WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 2.1.1. The vulnerability was reported on December 31, 2024, and publicly disclosed on January 16, 2025. This security issue is identified as CVE-2025-23962 and relates to incorrectly configured access control security levels (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (Medium), and vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The security flaw stems from missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks in certain functions, potentially allowing unprivileged users to execute higher privileged actions (Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited. It requires subscriber-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. Given the low severity impact, virtual patching has been deemed unnecessary (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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